扩写作文不是经过毫无根据地想象后简单地把原文拉长，而是紧紧围绕原文中心，把原文进行扩充，使内容更丰富，人物活动更形象，事情过程更具体，因而增强文章的感染力。扩写的原文为习作者提供了文章的框架，有利于习作者围绕既定的中心去发展文章。训练方式如下：
老师让学生读一篇简短的文章。文章中只简单地交待了事情的发生、发展和结局。对人物的动作、神态、外貌、语言及心理活动没有进行形象地描写，要求习作者读了此文后，在忠实于原文的结构、中心的基础上，把事情的过程写具体，把人物的形象描写生动，使中心鲜明突出。
1. 写作技巧
1）扩写原文，必须围绕原文的中心，把可以具体记叙、描写的地方写具体、写形象。例如：对于记事的文章，扩写时可以把事情的经过一步一步叙述清楚，作一些必要的细节描写；对于写人的文章，可以对人物的外貌、神态、语言、动作等做一些细致描写；对于状物的文章，可以对事物的形状、颜色、动态作描述。
2)扩写作文，也可运用形象手法，但不能脱离原文中心毫无根据地去想象。想象同样必须在围绕原文中心的基础上进行。
范例分析
Directions: Develop this short passage into a longer one in which there should be no less than 150 words.
The Strange Logic of a Salesman
Mr. Briggs' job was to sell life insurance. One day, after he had been doing this job for a year, the manager said to him that he found Mr. Briggs had been selling insurance only to people over 95, and giving them generous conditions, which would ruin the company.
Mr. Briggs said so. He had looked at the figures of deaths of the country and found very few people died at 95 or over.
范文：
The Strange Logic of a Salesman
Mr. Briggs got a job with an insurance company after he left school and went around visiting people in their homes to sell them life insurance.
One day, after he had been working for the company for about a year, the insurance manager sent for him and said, "Mr. Briggs, I have been looking at your record as a salesman with our company, and there is one thing that surprises me about it. Why have your been selling insurance only to people over 95 years old, and why have you been giving them such generous conditions? You'll ruin our company if you go on like that."
"Oh, no sir," answered Mr. Briggs at once, "Before I started work I looked at the figures for deaths in this country during the past ten years, and I can tell you that extremely few people die at the age of 95 or above each year."
评析：
这是一篇小的幽默故事。扩写时一定要抓住其幽默点，否则就失去了意义。
原文第一段第一句交待了Mr.Briggs的工作。文章的发展围绕经理对Mr.Briggs工作不满意的原因，甚至指出他如果再这样做下去，整个公司都可能要毁了。
但是Mr.Briggs却巧妙而幽默地进行了反驳，使故事在最后才达到高潮。
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