夏丏尊与叶圣陶合编的《国文百八课》中,对作文体裁有较详细的探讨。其《文章的分类》中说:“文章究竟有多少种类,中外古今说法不一。最基本的分类法把文章分为两种。一种是作者自己不说话的文章;一种是作者自己说话的文章。前者普遍叫做记叙文;后者普遍叫做论说文。”“记叙文的目的在把事物的形状或变化写出来传给大家看,叫大家看了文章,犹如亲身经验到的一样。作者用不着表示意见,只须站在旁观的地位,把 Xia Zun Zun and Sheng-Tao Tao's ”Ba-prose class“, on the style of writing a more detailed discussion. The classification of articles states: ”How many articles are there in the world?" The most basic taxonomy divides the articles into two categories, one is the author's own non-speaking article, the other is the author himself Speaking articles, the former is generally called narrative, while the latter is commonly called discourse. The purpose of the narrative is to write out and convey the shape or changes of things to everyone and let them read the articles as if they were first-hand experiences. The author does not need to express his opinion, just stand on the sidelines, put