地道英语写作教程

Part Ⅰ Basic Elements of English Writing

Unit One Words and Phrases

1.1 Correct Uses of Words

1.2 Precise Uses of Words

1.3 Terse Uses of Words

1.4 Identification of Phrases

Exercises

Unit Two Sentence Writing

2.1 Contrasts between Chinese and English Sentence Writing

2.2 Principles for English Sentence Writing

2.3 Improvements in English Sentence Qualities

2.4 An Avoidance of Typical Sentence Errors

Exercises

Unit Three Punctuation

3.1 The Comma

3.2 The Period

3.3 The Colon

3.4 The Semicolon

3.5 The Dash

3.6 Parenthesis

Exercises

Unit Four Paragraph Writing

4.1 General Introduction

4.2 Components of a Paragraph

4.3 Paragraph Development

4.4 Special Paragraphs

4.5 Building Effective Paragraphs

4.6 Tips to Avoid Ineffective Paragraph Writing

Exercises

Unit Five Figures of Speech

5.1 Parallelism

5.2 Simile and Metaphor

5.3 Personification

5.4 Hyperbole

5.5 Metonymy

5.6 Synecdoche

5.7 Euphemism

5.8 Antithesis

5.9 Alliteration

Exercises

Part Ⅱ Essay Writing

Unit Six Narrative Writing

6.1 General Introduction

6.2 Constructing Process

Exercises

Unit Seven Descriptive Essay Writing

7.1 General Introduction

7.2 Constructing Principles of Descriptive Essays

7.3 Graph Description

Exercises

Unit Eight Expository Essay Writing

8.1 General Introduction

8.2 Types of Expository Writing

8.3 Language Features in Exposition Writing

Exercises

Unit Nine Argumentative Essay Writing

9.1 General Introduction

9.2 Types of Argumentative Essays

9.3 Contrasts between Chinese and English Argumentative Essays and the Negative Transfers

9.4 Useful Expressions and Sentence Patterns

Exercises

References

本书主要介绍基础写作要素及写作体裁，包括第一部分和第二部分，共9个单元。第一部分为写作要素分析，内容包括单词、句式、标点、段落、修辞；第二部分为基本文体特点分析，内容包括记叙文、描写文、说明文、议论文。本书理论和实用（实践和应试）相结合，论述和丰富实例相结合。在中英对比的基础上，充分分析英语写作的特点；在详尽介绍写作要素和基本文体写作特点的基础上，进一步分析实践写作和应试写作的特点和注意事项。