本课程是针对传播学专业本科教学的一门公共基础课，课程本身的性质决定了其基础性地位。开设本门课程，主要内容包括第一章，导论，大学基础写作的性质、特点及教学、与相关学科之关系和学习方法；第二章，行文的一些基本要求；第三章，认识写作系统，写作主体、写作客体、写作载体和写作受体；第四章，表达方式，叙述、描写、说明、抒情和议论；第五章，写作能力，观察与阅读能力、感受与审美能力、想象与联想能力、分析与综合能力和思维与表达能力；第六章，诗歌；第七章，散文；第8章，小说；第九章，求职信(简历)的写作；第十章，毕业论文的写作。本课程旨在使学生通过学习，比较系统地掌握写作的基本理论和基础知识，熟悉写作的基本规律，培养学生写作一般文章所必须具备的基础能力。
《写作基础》课程总学时为32学时。在教学中，根据相应写作理论，结合一定的案例教学，采用随课堂多媒体演示的方式，并加以分析与讨论等形式，使学生能有一个较为真切实际体会，从而进一步加深对写作知识的认识与理解。其中，表达方式、写作能力、求职信（简历）和毕业论文是课程重点。
This course is aimed at undergraduate students who is studying is professional communication major as a public basic course. The nature of the curriculum decided its basic position. Open this course, the main content includes that: the first chapter, introduction, the nature , characteristics and teaching of university's basic writing, how it related to disciplines and the relationship between learning method; The second chapter, some basic requirements in writing; In the third chapter, understanding writing system, writing subject, writing object, writing carrier and writing receptor; The fourth chapter, expression, narration, description, description, lyrical and discussion; Chapter 5, writing ability, observation and reading ability, feeling and aesthetic ability, imagination and association ability, analysis and comprehensive ability and thinking ability; Chapter 6, poetry; Chapter 7, prose; Chapter 8, novels, Chapter 9, the application letter (CV) writing; Chapter ten, graduation thesis writing. The purpose of this course is to make students through the study, systematically grasp the basic theory and basic knowledge of writing, be familiar with the basic law of writing, to cultivate students the necessary ability of writing general articles.
The basis of writing course will totally take 32 class hours. In the teaching, we will according to the corresponding writing theory, combined with a certain case , make use of multimedia demonstration, and analyzed and discussed other forms so that the students can have a more true actual experience, thus further deepen their understanding the cognition and comprehension of writing. Among them, expression methods, writing ability, the application letter (CV) and graduation thesis is the emphasis of the course.