An Analysis of the Components of Textbooks for Chinese Letter Writing
This paper is to analyze the components the writing textbook should have and offer a plan of the textbook for efficient education. Approximately 20 kinds of the textbooks on the market are analyzed in section 2. Components are selected through examination of related materials and preceding research in section 3. Also, the plan of the writing textbook is presented concretely, focusing on components in section 4. Structural characteristic of Chinese letter is considered, which means that combination of strokes becomes single-component characters and that of single-component characters becomes multi-component characters are regarded when analyzing the components. In addition, rules of stroke order and number of strokes are classified as their basis and examples are presented. It also examined the standard of selection of entries, order of arrangements, type of letter, appendixes, and indexes. To edit the textbook in accordance with the above-mentioned standards, the process of selecting entries would be required and this will be made up for by follow-up research.