本书根据中国英语学习者学习英语的特点及思维方式,通过英语写作与汉语写作不同特点的比较以及大量英语范文和中美大学生习作的评点分析,对各种英语文体的写作方法和全过程(谋篇构思、研究资料、起草修改、遣词造句)等作了详尽说明。全书结构合理,逻辑严密,文字流畅,循序渐进,是广大英语学习者学习和提高英语写作能力的极有价值的教材和参考书。
本次新版对颇受广大英语学习者及教师欢迎的原书进行了全面修订,结构更加合理,内容更能满足广大英语学习者的需要。

Preface
Part 1聽 Warming Up聽聽聽
銆€Chapter 1. An Introduction to Writing in English聽聽
銆€Chapter 2. The Writing Process: A Bird's-EyeView聽聽聽
Part 2聽 Strategies for Engaging the Writing ProcessesEffectively
銆€Chapter 3. Inventing and Planning聽聽聽
銆€Chapter 4. Organizing the Essay聽聽
銆€Chapter 5. Developing the Essay聽聽
銆€Chapter 6. Revising the Essay聽聽
銆€Chapter 7. Researching, Using, and Acknowledging Sources
Part 3聽 Strategies for Specific WritingSituations聽聽
銆€Chapter 8. Writing to Describe Events聽聽
銆€Chapter 9. Writing to Describe People聽聽聽
銆€Chapter 10. Writing to Inform聽聽聽
銆€Chapter 11. Writing to Explain Processes聽聽
銆€Chapter 12. Writing to Explain Concepts聽聽
銆€Chapter 13. Writing to Argue聽
銆€Chapter 14. Writing to Propose
銆€Chapter 15. Writing to Analyze聽聽
銆€Chapter 16. Writing to Evaluate聽聽聽
銆€Chapter 17. Writing Research Papers聽
銆€Chapter 18. Taking Essay Exams聽聽聽
Part 4聽 Strategies for Developing a Mature and EffectiveStyle
銆€Chapter 19. Sentence Development聽