would you please check the passage for me

[xby]

Here's an abstract from my dissertation. I'm a Chinese students, so I'm afraid my expression of English is not so pure. Can you check this passage for me? especially the grammatical errors. If you are willing to embellish it, I will be very grateful to your help.

Thanks!

Abstract: This present paper sets its aim at a probe from a new perspective, which called Ecocriticism, into some of the works of William Wordsworth. By outlining the whole history of Ecoliterature and its development, we see its strong force constantly influences the human sense towards nature, and with its deterioration there appears the trend for literature and art stepping into ecological field. Thus it affords an opportunity for the resurvey of Wordsworth’s poetry in an Ecocritical way, whose poems, though not all of them, sparkled the inkling of Ecoliterature some hundred years before, predicting the ecological crisis, enlightening the later generations. :banana:

[Ender]

These are just suggestions, but:

Abstract: This present paper is probe from a new perspective, which called Ecocriticism, into some of the works of William Wordsworth. By outlining the whole history of Ecoliterature and its development, we see that its strong force constantly influences the human sense towards nature. With its deterioration there appears the chance for literature and art stepping into ecological field. Thus it affords an opportunity for the resurvey of Wordsworth’s poetry in an Ecocritical way, whose poems, though not all of them, sparkled the inkling of Ecoliterature some hundred years before, predicting the ecological crisis, and enlightening the later generations.

(I bolded the parts I changed if you couldn't already guess that)

[Miranda]

This is a hard passage to follow and I don't know if I have made correct sense of it, since its difficult to ascertain what the word 'deterioration' relates to. I've assumed it to be 'ecoliterature' but I could be wrong. But this is what I make of it:

'The aim of this paper is to examine some of the works by William Wordsworth from a new perspective, that of Ecocriticism. By outlining the whole history and development of ecoliterature, we can see how strongly it has constantly influenced the human senses towards nature. Since the deterioration of interest in ecoliterature, there has been a trend for literature and art to step into the ecological field. This has brought about the opportunity to re-examine Wordsworth's poetry in an ecocritical way, for much of his poetry inspired the birth of ecoliterature some hundred years ago when he predicted the ecological crisis which would be faced by later generations. '

(Original extract) This present paper sets its aim at a probe from a new perspective, which called Ecocriticism, into some of the works of William Wordsworth. By outlining the whole history of Ecoliterature and its development, we see its strong force constantly influences the human sense towards nature, and with its deterioration there appears the trend for literature and art stepping into ecological field. Thus it affords an opportunity for the resurvey of Wordsworth’s poetry in an Ecocritical way, whose poems, though not all of them, sparkled the inkling of Ecoliterature some hundred years before, predicting the ecological crisis, enlightening the later generations. :banana:[/QUOTE]

[xby]

Thank you! Thank both of you!
You made this passage very fluent.

Ender:you advice is very reasonable!

Miranda: the word "deterioration" here refers to the deterioration of Nature.But it's my false expression that confused you. Your embellishment made a big operation to my essay, thank you!

[xby]

Please help me again!

Ecoliterature is a sort of literature devoted to exploring and expressing the relationship between human and nature, with ecological duty being its outstanding feature.
Ecoliterature is a sort of literature could be viewed, to a great extent, as an expression of ideal harmony between human and nature, and a prediction of human future, with ecological ideal and caution being its outstanding feature.

Is there any grammatical error existing in this passage? Thank you!

[Jay]

Ecoliterature is a sort of literature devoted to exploring and expressing the relationship between human and nature (would use mankind/humankind or people instead of 'human'), with ecological duty being its outstanding feature.
Ecoliterature is a sort of literature that could be viewed, to a great extent, as an expression of ideal harmony between human and nature (if you want to use 'human' I'd recomend 'man' instead if you want to use it in singular, as an individuum or as people as the whole), and a prediction of the human future, with ecological ideal and caution being its outstanding feature.

Ok lol, let me do it again: (asked friend for help now, having a native speaker buddy online helps ;))
Ecoliterate is the sort of literature that is devoted to exploring and expressing the relationship between humanity and nature, with ecological duty as its main feature.
Ecoliterature is also the sort of literature that could be viewed, to a great extent, as an expression of ideal harmony between humanity and nature, and as a prediction of humanity's future, with ecological idea and caution being its outstanding feature.

Thanks go to Bekki for helping me with this and to you, xby, for keeping us busy for several minutes :D.
*edit* I can't type hehe

[xby]

Thank both of you!
It's the passage from my dissertation that must be written in English, though I am a Chinese student. I want to make it a pure English.
But, would you mind telling me, why I can't use "human" here?
Thanks again!

[Jay]

No problem :)
I didn't say you can't use 'human', just that I'd recomend to use another word instead. I'm not a native speaker as well and I'm usually 'talking' by intuition.
Actually I think I should stay out of this if you should have further grammar questions as I tend to confuse things rather than help.

[Miranda]

Jay is right Xby, to use the word 'humanity' instead of 'human.' I don't know if I am very good at explaining this and maybe someone else will have a more technically defined reason, but ... humanity is a collective plural, meaning there is more than one. You could have used 'humans and nature' but humanity is the correct term because you are referring to a collection of humans. I have just looked in my dictionary and it says humanity means 'mankind collectively.' You would have also been correct to use 'man' as Jay suggested, or 'mankind' - but somehow, humanity is the better word.

Sorry about misinterpreting what you were referring to with the word 'deterioration' I guess it should then read ' By outlining the whole history and development of ecoliterature, we can see how strongly it has constantly influenced the human senses towards nature. Since the onset of the deterioration of nature, there has been a trend for literature and art to step into the ecological field.'

I am wondering though if 'decline' would be a better word to use rather than 'deterioration': 'Since the onset of the decline in nature....' but I think you really need someone elses opinion about this just to make sure it's okay..though I think it is.

Like Jay, I really enjoyed doing this.

[xby]

Thank all of you,friends!
All of your advice will prove so useful to me!
And this really made an improvement for me to study English!

[emily655321]

I like "deterioration" better than "decline." ("Decline" just seems like it implies that nature is somehow at fault for becoming worse-off, or that its general qualities are declining. "Deterioration" more effectively communicates a sense of the natural world dying piece by piece.)