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　　Putonghua is the only standard service sector language in our country. But recently many people from many business sectors are busy studying many kinds of dialects. As for me， we should encourage this activity when we promote Putonghua. The reason is that the dialects have their own advantages.
　　Firstly, we know that the language is the carrier of the culture of the people who use it. Dialects are no exception. Different dialects keep their different heritages of the users with them. In our country, people from the south and north use quite different dialects. And from these dialects we know the different characteristics of the people and also can work out the places they lived in.
　　Secondly, the promotion of the use of the dialects in public places is the requirement of the effective communication. Today is the time of wide-opening. We not only open to the outside world but also open to the inside world. That is to say that we also encourage the deeper communication between the different regions within the country. People, today, are free to move from one place to another place to study, do business or pursuit comfortable life. Then the language barrier occurs between people. In order to make their work go on smoothly or to bring their studies to success, they begin to study each others success or even be observed into others culture. In this case, you may say that people could use Putonghua as their common tool for communication. However, the question is that it is very hard for those who speak dialects to change their mother languages; but the dialects are easier to be learnt than Putonghua. The reason is that people often take the dialects for the interesting things.
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第一章  大纲分析
第二章  谋篇布局
第一节  文章的首段
一、篇章主题(thesis statement)
二、开篇(openings)
第二节  文章的推展段
一、完整的推展段落(unified paragraph)
二、主题句(topic sentence)
三、扩展句(development of a paragraph)
四、结尾段落(concluding paragraph)
第三章  遣词造句
第一节  词汇的选择
第二节  词语的音律
第三节  句子的写作
第四节  篇章的完整与统一
第四章  实战模拟
第一节  模拟作文
第二节  模拟练习题
第三节  历年写作真题