A study on the compilation method of Chinese encyclopedia for children

• Main Author: 蔡明珊
• Other Authors: 陳光憲
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/86516295434421969641

碩士 === 臺北市立教育大學 === 中國語文學系碩士班 === 95 === The children’s encyclopedia comprises all kinds of main knowledge in need for children. The structure of children’s encyclopedia and the explanations in it associated with the course in class deeply could help and complement the school education. Although the knowledge increases dramatically in these days, not only the course in class is insufficiently, but also absorbing knowledge passively by students is also inefficiently. But the encyclopedia written specifically intended for children can enlarge the horizon of knowledge to students and let students taking lessons in self- and active-learning. At present, the representative encyclopedia written specifically intended for children published in Taiwan and China is “The Chinese Children’s Encyclopedia” and “The China Children’s Encyclopedia” respectively. Each of these has its own characteristic, recommendation or deficiency, and both could be the foundation of compiling the Chinese encyclopedia written specifically intended for children. This thesis is made up of six chapters as below: chapter 1, introduction, includes the motive, objective, ideation, research scope and approach of this study in overview, chapter 2, literature studying, includes the study on the literature related to encyclopedia issued in Taiwan and China, chapter 3, theory basic, includes the history, definition, character, category and function of encyclopedia, which can also help us recognize and develop the advantages of encyclopedia, chapter 4, the clauses and subsidiaries, includes the definition, category, structure and other subjects related to the clauses and subsidiaries of encyclopedia, chapter 5, compiling process, includes detailed description about the six phases of compiling process of encyclopedia, such as overall design, writing, examination, editing, assembly and proofing of the encyclopedia, and also includes detailed description of the amending process of the encyclopedia in the end of this chapter, and chapter 6, conclusion, by comparing “The Chinese Children’s Encyclopedia” with “The China Children’s Encyclopedia” issued in Taiwan and China respectively, following the study on the compilation method of children’s encyclopedia mentioned above, we generalize an ideal compilation method of Chinese encyclopedia for children.