本书共分六章,每章三单元。每章主要围绕三条主线展开。**条主线是论文写作的主要步骤,第二条主线是论文写作相关事项,第三条主线是论述方法。
论文写作的主要步骤包括选题、材料的收集与评估、列出提纲、论文写作、编写参考文献以及摘要写作。论文写作相关事项包括学术论文的特征、流程、文章的衔接与连贯、文体特点、图表的使用、写作规范、参考文献的标注以及致谢等。至于论述方法,则主要介绍定义法、因果法、比较与对照法、议论法以及记叙法等。
附录包括三篇范文以及一个常用格式指南。参考答案则与各章练习相匹配,供读者参考。

Chapter One Introduction
Part One Introduction to Academic Writing
Part Two Procedures of Academic Writing
Part Three Definition Writing
Chapter Two Research Topic
Part One Choosing a Title
Part Two Tables and Figures
Part Three Cause and Effect
Chapter Three Data Collection and Evaluation
Part One Data Collection and Evaluation
Part Two Developing an Outline
Part Three Comparison and Contrast
Chapter Four Writing Style
Part One Citation vs. Plagiarism
Part Two References
Part Three Language Style
Chapter Five Paper Writing
Part One Paper Writing
Part Two Cohesion and Coherence
Part Three Argumentation
Chapter Six Abstrace
Part One Abstract Writing
Part Two Description
Part Three Rounding out the Paper
Appendix 1 Sample Paper of Arts
Appendix 2 Sample Paper of Science
Appendix 3 Sample Scientific Paper
Appendix 4 Common Style Guides
Key to Exercises
References