本教材是按照高等学校英语专业英语教学大纲的要求，结合编者的教学经验以及国内外对英语写作教学的研究成果编写而成。本教材的主旨是通过英语写作课堂教学，帮助学生建立起用英语写作的信心，熟悉英语写作的过程，把握常见文本(如叙述、说明性的短文)的语篇结构和语言特点，避免出现常见错误。本书共有三章，三十六个单元，包括写作过程的主要环节，即：构思，写出初稿，修改、编辑和校对。所选范文生动有趣、语言地道，便于学生模仿和掌握各种问题的基本特征，形成用英语思考和写作的习惯。在每个步骤给学生提供有针对性的帮助和指点，每一个环节所给出的核对清单便于学生自查、互查。带着批判性的眼光来修改自己和同学的习作，有重点地掌握和落实每个环节的要点。此外，每一单元后面都配有一定数量的练习，并附有答案，以供学习者巩固所学知识。
本教材适用对象为大学本科一年级或二年级英语专业的学生或具有同等水平的自学者。
Chapter One Prewriting Strategies
Section I Writing and Prewriting
1. The importance of writing
2. The differences between writing and speaking
3. The process of writing
Section II Prewriting Techniques
Introduction
Unit 1 Brainstorming
Unit 2 Freewriting
Unit 3 Questioning
Unit 4 Mapping
Unit 5 Preparing an outline
Unit 6 Cubing
Unit 7 Journal Writing
Chapter Two Writing the First Draft
Section I Paragraph and Essay Structure
Unit 8 The Structure of a Paragraph
Unit 9 The Structure of an Essay
Section II Types of Development Patterns
Unit 10 List
Unit 11 Process
Unit 12 Definition
Unit 13 Classification
Unit 14 Cause and Effect
Unit 15 Comparison and Contrast
Unit 16 Argumentation
Unit 17 Narration
Unit 18 Description
Chapter Three Revising and Editing
Introduction
Section I Revising
Section II Editing
Unit 19 Countable Nouns and Uncountable Nouns
Unit 20 Collective Nouns
Unit 21 Proper Nouns
Unit 22 Vocatives
Unit 23 Pronouns
Unit 24 Prepositional Phrases
Unit 25 Word Order
Unit 26 Parallelism
Unit 27 Subject, Object and Predicative
Unit 28 Grammatical Subject and Logical Subject
Unit 29 Appositive and Attributive
Unit 30 Punctuation
Unit 31 Frequently Used Wrong Words or Phrases
Unit 32 Brevity
Unit 33 Complete Sentences
Unit 34 Variety of Diction
Unit 35 Classification
Unit 36 Comparison and Contrast
Keys to Exercises
References
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