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Unit 10 The Transaction
Teaching Points
By the end of this unit, students are supposed to
grasp the author’s purpose of writing and make clear the structure of the whole passage through an intensive reading of Text I The Transaction.
comprehend the topic sentences in Text I thoroughly and be able to paraphrase them.
get a list of new words and structures and use them freely in conversation and writing.
be aware of the cross-cultural differences of food
Topics for discussion
Do you often read fiction? And have you ever wondered how fiction is written?
Have you ever attempted to write fiction or non-fiction or poetry? Where do you think the insurmountable difficulty rests?
What do you think are the essential qualities that make a successful writer?
Cultural Background
The Importance of Dialogue
Many philosophers and writers would like to express their philosophic ideas through the form of dialogue. And one important theorist making great contribution in clarifying the function of dialogic thinking is Mikhail Bakhtin.
1) Self-other relationship — “other” plays a key role in understanding:
In order to understand, it is immensely important for the person who understands to be located outside the object of his or her creative understanding — in time, in space, in culture.
— Mikhail Bakhtin (from New York Review of Books, June 10, 1993)
2) Polyphony (many voices) — single voice is not the carrier of truth:
Truth is a number of mutually addressed, albeit contradictory and logically inconsistent, statements. Truth needs a multitude of carrying voices.
Text I
The Transaction
William Zinsser
Global Reading
I. Text Analysis
The text opens with two writers answering students’ questions about how to write in dialogue, showing sharp contrasts from various aspects. By summarizing different methods in writing, the text later on points out that even with diversity and differentiation, the common ground of any writing is the same. Many renowned philosophers and writers such as Pl
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