The key elements of a writing situation include the following:
- your subject
- your purpose
- your audience
- the sources of information available to you
- any constraints (e,g, length, deadlines)
subject
- Has the subject been given to you ?
- What interests you about your subject? What questions would you like to explore?
- Why is your subject worth writing about ? How might readers benefit from reading about it ?
- Do you need to narrow your subject to a more specific topic?
Purpose and audience
- Why are you writing: To inform readers? To persuade them? To call them to action? To entertain them? Some combination of these?
- Who are your reader? How well informed are they about the subject ? What do you want them to learn?
- How interested and attentive are they likely to be? Will they resist any of your ideas?
- What is your relationship to your readers: Student to instructor? Expert to novice?
英语写作和汉语写作是两种不一样的方式和途径。
就自己而言，汉语写作更多的是传达一种意境，传达的是一种感情。写出来的东西，无论多久，每当读起来总有一种穿越时空而牵连在一起的心绪；
英文写作则更加具体，详细。事例和理论都需要写明写清，更多的是用来传递信息。注重的是逻辑思维过程，体现的是论据和论点。
当然二者肯定是有交融的，只是现在的能力还不足以利用二者互为补充。其次，汉语作为母语，表达说明是没有问题，但是遣词造句仍需要学习；英语虽有学习，但始终觉得像是一个插上木塞的小嘴油瓶，虽然不停地灌输香油，但瓶中依旧空荡。
上面的提纲用来指导自己的英语表达，向自己问问题，尝试去多写作。带着一种“可以用为英语为别人答疑解惑”的目标，而比“充实自己”更加具体，更加具有说服力。
登楼眺望，还需咫步百移；遣词达意，仍要执笔万句。
希望可以由此慢慢提高自己的能力。
