高校英文写作教材系列。全书分为四大部分。**部分为英语写作知识与技巧概述,引用语言学的新成果,分析对比了东西方不同民族的思维表达方式和习惯,提出了怎样才能写出地道英语的原则。第二、三部分介绍从句子到段落,再到篇章的写作知识与技巧,让学生通过知识与技巧的运用,实现用英语写作短文、传递信息和表达思想的目标。第四部分介绍两种特殊形式的英文写作——文章概要和读书报告的写作,适应大学英语教育的普遍要求。

本书有以下特点:
全书深入浅出,以**人称写成,充分体了人文精神,让使用者以平等的射份参与问题的讨论,增强写作地道英语短文的自信心。各章节均配有大量练习,练习难易有致,教师和学生可以自由取舍,灵活选用。练习编排采用了“预测—实践—效果检测”三段循环式的科学方法。预测可以唤起读者的求知欲;实践使其熟悉写作技巧,获得真知;效果检测既可起到复习巩固所学写作知识和技巧的作用,又可增强读者提高写作能力的自信心。
创造性地把标点符号的使用融入了文章整体性与连贯性的讨论,改变了写作书籍孤立对标点符号的传统做法。举例多引自当代英美原著,但并不生搬硬套,这使全书既摆脱了中式英语的束缚又切合中国学生学习的

Part One A General Introduction to English Writing
I. Writing in Our World
II. Types of Writing
1. Narration
2. Description
3. Exposition
III. Writing Well
1. Writing for Your Readers
2. Good Writing

Part Two From Sentence to Paragraph
I. Sentence Structure
1. Elements of a Sentence
2. Kinds of Sentences
3. Clause Connectors
4. Coordination and Subordination
5. Parallelism
II. Paragraph Structure
1. The Basic Paragraph
2. Four Elements of the Paragraph
3. Mechanics in Writing a Paragraph
III. Basic Paragraph-Building Skills
1. Taking Four Pre-Writing Steps
2. Making Our Topic Sentence a Helpful Guide
3. Loading Our Topic Sentence with a Strong Controlling Idea
4. Writing a Helpful Outline in Advance
5. Gaining Unity
6. Gaining Coherence from Logical Order
7. Gaining Coherence from Transitions
8. Gaining Better Unity and Coherence from Punctuation
IV. Sentence Problems
1. Sentence Fragments
Fragments Without Verbs
Fragments Without Subjects
Fragments Without Subjects and/or Verbs
Fragments of Dependent Clauses
2. Choppy Sentences
3. Run-Together Sentences
4. Stringy Sentences
5. Confusing Shifts
Confusing Shifts in Person
Confusing Shifts in Tense
confusing Shifts in Subject and Voice
confusing Shifts in Mood or Speech
confusing Shifts in Number
Mixed Sentence construction
6. Incomplete Constructions
Careless Omissions
Incomplete Comparisons
7. Ambiguous Pronoun Reference

A Pronoun with Two or More Possible Antecedents
A Pronoun Without Clearly Expressed Antecedent
The Pronouns It, They, and You with Indefinite Antecedents
The Pronouns This, That and Which Referring to General Ideas
A Pronoun Too Far Away from Its Antecedent
8. Dangling Modifiers
Dangling Participial Modifiers
Dangling Gerunds in Prepositional Phrases
Dangling Infinitive Modifiers
Dangling Abbreviated Clauses
9. Misplaced Modifiers
Misplaced Prepositional Phrases
Misplaced Adjective Clauses
Misplaced Adverbial Modifiers
10. Wordiness
Needless Repetition
Needless Expansion
Awkward Cliches
Overwritten Style

Part There From Paragraph to Theme
I. Introduction
II. Three Kinds of Paragraphs
1. The Introductory Paragraph
2. The Body Paragraph
3. The Concluding Paragraph
III. Basic Theme-Building Skills
1. Getting the Theme Well-Unified with an Effective Thesis Statement
2. Getting the Theme Coherent with Transitions Between Paragraphs
3. Developing the Theme Under the Guidance of a Well-Organized Outline
Process Theme in Time Order
Descriptive Theme in Order of Importance
Theme of Classification in Order of Importance
Theme of Comparison and Contrast in Order of Importance
Theme of Cause and Effect in Order of Importance
Theme of Exemplification in Time Order, or Order of Importance
IV. Sample Themes Observed

Part Four Summary and Book Report
I. Summary Writing
II. Book Report Writing
Correction Symbols
Partial Answers to Exercises
Bibliography