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I’ve been writing for most of my life. The book Writing Without Teachers
introduced me to one distinction and one practice that has helped my writing
processes tremendously. The distinction is between the creative mind and the
critical mind. While you need to employ both to get to a finished result, they
cannot work in parallel no matter how much we might like to think so.
Trying to criticize writing on the fly is possibly the single greatest
barrier to writing that most of us encounter. If you are listening to that 5th
grade English teacher correct your grammar while you are trying to capture a
fleeting (稍纵即逝的) thought, the thought will die. If you capture the fleeting
thought and simply share it with the world in raw form, no one is likely to
understand. You must learn to create first and then criticize if you want to
make writing the tool for thinking that it is.
The practice that can help you past your learned bad habits of trying to
edit as you write is what Elbow calls “free writing.” In free writing, the
objective is to get words down on paper non-stop, usually for 15-20 minutes. No
stopping, no going back, no criticizing. The goal is to get the words flowing.
As the words begin to flow, the ideas will come from the shadows and let
themselves be captured on your notepad or your screen.
Now you have raw materials that you can begin to work with using the
critical mind that you’ve persuaded to sit on the side and watch quietly. Most
likely, you will believe that this will take more time than you actually have
and you will end up staring blankly at the pages as the deadline draws near.
Instead of staring at a blank start filling it with words no matter how
bad. Halfway through you available time, stop and rework your raw writing into
something closer to finished product. Move back and forth until you run out of
time and the final result will most likely be far better than your current
practices.
57. When the author says the creative mind and the critical mind “cannot
work in parallel” (Line 4, Para. 1) in the writing process, he means
________.
A) no one can be both creative and critical
B) they cannot be regarded as equally important
C) they are in constant conflict with each other
D) one cannot use them at the same time
58. What prevents people from writing on is ________.
A) putting their ideas in raw form
B) attempting to edit as they write
C) ignoring grammatical soundness
D) trying to capture fleeting thoughts
59. What is the chief objective of the first stage of writing?
A) To organize one’s thoughts logically.
B) To choose an appropriate topic.
C) To get one’s ideas down.
D) To collect raw materials.
60. One common concern of writers about “free writing” is that
________.
A) it overstresses the role of the creative mind
B) it takes too much time to edit afterwards
C) it may bring about too much criticism
D) it does not help them to think clearly
61. In what way does the critical mind help the writer in the writing
process?
A) It refines his writing into better shape.
B) It helps him to come up with new ideas.
C) It saves the writing time available to him.
D) It allows him to sit on the side and observe.
参考答案：
57. D 58. B 59. C 60.B 61. A
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发表于 2016-7-11 18:45:59