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
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