How to Speak and Write Correctly读后感锦集

《How to Speak and Write Correctly》是一本由Joseph Devlin著作，Arc Manor出版的Hardcover图书，本书定价：USD 19.99，页数：136，特精心收集的读后感，希望对大家能有帮助。

《How to Speak and Write Correctly》读后感(一)：通俗易懂，深入浅出

最精辟的道理用言语表达出来时总是最为朴实的。这本书非常通俗易懂，用的词汇也都是常见的，讲得主要是说话写作需要注意到的一些非常基本的要素，涉及了一些简明的语法知识，是一本不错的好书。书中的知识和道理看似非常基础，却也是最为根本而易为人所忽视的。比如作者谈到，不要为了追求华丽的词藻而刻意用一些不常见的生僻字眼，而是要根据场合、情景而选择恰当的词句。这种道理很浅显，可是并非人人能做到。有时候，看一句话、一篇文章好不好，并不是看它优不优美、深不深刻，而是看它是否“恰当”。

《How to Speak and Write Correctly》读后感(二)：至少作者很实在

至少作者很实在，告诉你最初的时候需要模仿那些通俗的，广为大家所接受的作品。而不是像天朝的教育，明明充斥着山寨，却要教你创新和高尚。除了正常的教你面对被退稿不要气馁，也告诉你如果尝试了很多遍还是不成，而且你发现作为一个作者并不是你的宿命，就去做别的事情，不要因为去做体力活而不好意思。

矫枉必要过正，不是好事，但打倒孔家店是没错的，打倒还是不够的，打倒只是“破”，重要的还要“立”，为什么现在那么多人又开始迷上“弟子规”之类的，就是成人对自己世界的制度都不满意，于是寄托于另一个更差的制度。

《How to Speak and Write Correctly》读后感(三)：那些德芙林告诉我的事

德芙哥是一百年前来自北爱贝尔法斯特的议员。英语之伟大，全靠德芙哥这种男人的较真。以下是他告诉我的一些事。

他说，写作是天赋之才，不可多得；而正确的写作，则是一门手艺。

他说写作时永远别装逼，装学术，不懂装懂。用你能想到的最简单的词，写你身边发生的最小的事。

他说英语里最基本，最深情，最贴近人心的词。都能在盎格鲁撒克逊先民的口中找到。简单清新之类的事，还是别麻烦法语和拉丁了。

他说，圣经是最伟大的书。世界上最伟大的文学家是莎士比亚。莎士比亚全部的教育是他通读了圣经。

他说词要短，句要短，段落要像水里的石头。别太紧，踩着难受；别太松，要不然过不了河。

他说，就像世间所有的事一样，阅读，只要最好的。请学习莎士比亚的风格，但别学莎士比亚的新潮。不做第一个用新词的人，也不做最后一个用旧词的人。

他说，最伟大的作者也常犯主谓不一致主被分不清的毛病；最没文化的街头混混也能讲出语法完美的长句。其间的区别是，“正确”成没成为你的本能。

他曰：笔不写怪力乱神。他曰：知之则写之，不知别乱写，是知也。

他说（开始励志了），贫困是富强之动力，拒稿是大家之保证。再难，撑住。

他说，学习写作最好的办法是：坐下来，写。

我手写我心，无往而不胜。

《How to Speak and Write Correctly》读后感(四)：简洁与简单

书中用了相对较大的篇幅来说明“好的语言应该是简单的这一原则。虽然全书只有136页，虽然这个观点分布在书中的若干个地方，但整体而言却大致占到了20-30%的篇幅。

作者认为，一个好的作者，应该用简洁或简单的语言，去表达他要表达的意思。如果表达一个意思既可以用简单的词也可以用复杂的词，那么就要用简单的、短的词，否则就是装逼（最后的“装逼”，是我说的）。因为你写一篇东西，最终的目的是要让别人看，让别人知道、了解你的观点，因此越多的人看到并看懂你的文字，对于达到这一目的越有好处。如果不是为了这样一个目的，那就只能是故意显示自己认识的词汇多，知道的东西多。这样的行为，不是装逼是什么？

其实这样的观点，在中国古代早已有之。白居易每逢诗作新成，都会找到邻居的老妈妈，把新诗念给老妈妈听。如果老妈妈不甚清楚，就自己每晚苦苦吟诵，知道老妈妈听的懂为止。

可是白乐天是我国唐朝的古人，本书的作者是近代人，二者相差不可以道里计。看来我国古人还是很牛的，今人在这点上绝对需要痛哭流涕。

除此之外，作者大概用了接近于50%的篇幅（全书的前半部分）在说一些实质上可以归类为语法的问题。例如什么是名词，什么动词，什么是冠词，这些词具体应如何行文使用。个人认为，这部分相对是比较垃圾的，只有在接近全书一半的位置，给读者特别是非英语母语的读者能够有一些好的提示，有助于他们理解一些特殊情况下某一具体句子是何意思（例如全句所有词都认识，但合在一起就是不知道什么意思）。这些内容如果我们可以彻底理解，应该是真正进入英文殿堂的一块很重要的敲门砖，也应该可以避免外国人和我们说话我们能够懂得，但听外国人自己之间说话时就听不太懂的情况的出现。

基于上述优缺点都非常明显的状况，我给出了3星的评价。

欢迎大家吐槽！

《How to Speak and Write Correctly》读后感(五)：正確運用英語的幾個要點

【Old friends are always good friends.】

Stick to the old familiar, simple name that your grandfather called it. You may be eager to show superiority over others to call it a spatulous device for abrading the surface of the soil. Simply call it a spade. It has stood the test of time.

【Three essentials of the English language are: Purity, perspicuity and precision 】

Purity is typified by the use of good English. It precludes the use of ungrammatical language nor any newly coined word until such word is adopted by the best writers and speakers.

Perspicuity requires a style at once clear and comprehensive and entirely free from pomp and pedantry and affectation or any straining after effect.

Precision requires concise and exact expression, free from redundancy and tautology, a style terse and clear enough to enable the audience to comprehend immediately the meaning of the speaker or writer so as to rivet the attention of the audience on the words uttered or written.

【Essentials of English Grammar】

When we do not understand the grammar of the language, we may be making egregious blunders while thinking we are speaking with the utmost accuracy.

----Arrangement of Words----

We should not lose the sight of the fact that the beginning and end are the important places for catching the attention of the reader. Words in these places are greater emphasis than elsewhere.

----The Paragraph----

No specific rules can be given as to the construction of paragraphs. The best advice is –Study closely the paragraph structure of the best writers, for it is only through imitation, conscious or unconscious of the best models – that one can master the art.

The best paragraphist in the English language for the essay is Macaulay, the best model to follow for the oratorical style is Edmund Burke and for deｓｃｒｉｐｔion and narration probably the greatest master of paragraph is the American Goldsmith, Washington Irving.

Macaulay is an elegant stylist to imitate. Goldsmith is another writer whose simplicity of style charms.

----Diction the Head of Choice of Words----

Put the right word in the right place. Begin with the exact literal meaning of the words we use or encounter. Analyse a marked difference in synonyms which are seemingly interchangeable.

For instance grief and sorrow seem to be identical, but they are not. Grief is active; sorrow is more or less passive; grief is caused by troubles and misfortunes which come to us from the outside, while sorrow is often the consequence of our own acts. Grief is frequently loud and violent; sorrow is always quiet and retiring. Grief shouts. Sorrow remains calm.

[Coping Tactic]

Whenever you meet a strange word note it down until you discover its meaning and use. Read the best books you can get, books written by men and women who are acknowledged masters of language, and study how they use their words, where they place them in the sentences, and the meanings they convey to the readers.

Get as many words as you possibly can –if you don’t need them now, pack them away in the garrets of your brain so that you can call upon them if you require them.

【Essentials of Style】

Purity: good use tells us whether a word is right or wrong; good taste, whether it is adapted to our purpose or not.

----Ten Commandments of English Style----

Do not use foreign words.

Do not use a long word when a short one will serve your purpose. [Fire is much better than conflagration.]

Do not use technical words, or those understood only by specialists in their respective lines, except when you are writing especially for such people.

Do not use slang.

Do not use provincialisms. [I guess for I think; I reckon for I know]

Do not in writing prose, use poetical or antiquated words [ lore, e’er, morn,etc.]

Do not use trite and hackneyed words and expressions. [on the job, up and in, down and out]

Do not use newspaper words which have not established a place in the language. [to suicide]

Do not use ungrammatical words and forms. [I ain’t]

[Quintilian said “Prefer the oldest of the new and the newest of the old.” Pope put this in rhyme and it still holds good: in words, as fashions, the same rule will hold. Alike fantastic, if too new or old – Be not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside. ]

Propriety requires one to use words in their accepted sense or the sense which everyday use sanctions.

Simplicity. The Anglo-Saxon element in the English language comprises the simple words which express the relations of everyday life, strong, terse, and vigorous, the language of the fireside, street, market and farm. It is the style which characterizes the Bible the many of the great English classics such as the Pilgrim’s Progress, Robinson Crusoe, and Gulliver’s Travels.

Beginners shall bear in mind the leading rule of clearness of style to avoid all obscurity and ambiguous phrases.

Unity refers a literal connection and logic subordination of all parts of a sentence with the principal thought.

Strength gives animation, energy and vivacity to language and sustains the interest the of the reader. Without it the words are weak and feeble create little or no impression on the mind. Give the most important words the most prominent places which, as has been pointed out, are the beginning and end of the sentence.

【Suggestions for Beginners】

Familiar themes are always the best for the beginner. Don’t attempt to describe a scene in Australia if you have never been there and know nothing of the country. Never hunt for subjects, there are thousands around you. Describe what you saw yesterday – a fire, a runaway horse, a dog-fight on the street and be original in your deｓｃｒｉｐｔion.

Imitate the best writers in their style, but not in their exact words.

Get out of the beaten path and make a pathway of your own. Don’t try to literally copy them. Be yourself on every occasion –no one else.

Not like Homer would I write,

Not like Dante if I might,

Not like Shakespeare at his best,

Not like Goethe or the rest,

Like myself, however small,

Like myself, or not at all.

----Some sage examples (P145-153)----

Shakespeare simply read the book of nature and interpreted it from the standpoint of his own magnificent genius. Personal magnetism or personal appearance entered not as factors into their success.

If you are poor that is not a detriment but an advantage. Poverty is an incentive to endeavour, not a drawback. Better to be born with a good, working brain in your head than with a gold spoon in your mouth. If the world had been depending on the so-called pets of fortune, it would have been deteriorated long ago.

Have ambition to succeed and you will. Cut the word “failure” out of your lexicon. Don’t acknowledge it. Remember “In life’s earnest battle they only prevail who daily march onward and never say fail.” Let every obstacle you encounter be but a stepping stone in the path of onward progress to the goal of success.

【Masters and Masterpieces of Literature】

Beware of the man of one book, which means that a man of one book is a master of the craft. Select a few of the great works of the master minds, assimilate and digest them, so that they will be of advantage to your literary system.