正版 大学英语基础写作 朱彦主编 南京大学出版社 9787305160295

1 Getting to Know Essays
1.1 Some Basics of Essays
1.1.1 What is an essay?
1.1.2 Why do people write essays?
1.1.3 What are the criteria of a good essay?
1.2 Structure of a Traditional Essay
1.2.1 Understanding the components of a traditional essay
1.2.2 Identifying the structural characteristics of other texts
1.3 Essay Writing
1.3.1 Prewriting activities
1.3.2 Major steps to follow during the writing process
Review Activities
2 Getting Started
2.1 Developing Ideas
Technique 1.Asking & answering questions
Technique 2: Making a list
Technique 3: Clustering ideas
Technique 4: Freewriting
2.2 Choosing a Topic
2.3 Expanding a Topic into a Thesis Statement
2.4 Outlining
Review Activities
3 Drafting and Revising
3.1 Drafting
3.1.1 Taking your ideas down
3.1.2 Pacing yourself
3.1.3 Further suggestions for drafting
3.2 Supporting the Thesis
3.2.1 Adding sPecific information
3.2.2 Exploring on a new dimension
3.3 Revising
3.3.1 Revising for unity
3.3.2 Revising for coherence
3.3.3 Revising for conciseness
3.4 Peer-editing
Review Activities
4 Editing
4.1 Basic Manuscript Form
4.2 Punctuation
4.2.1 Comma
4.2.2 Period
4.2.3 Semicolon
4.2.4 Colon
4.2.5 Quotation marks
4.2.6 Dash
4.3 Capitalization
4.3.1 Proper nouns
4.3.2 Personal titles
4.3.3 Titles of books, records, stories, essays, plays, and poems
4.3.4 Beginning of a sentence, quotation, or line of poetry
4.3.5 Other uses
4.4 The Final Copy
Review Activities
5 Word Use
5.1 Levels of Language
5.2 Denotation and Connotation
5.3 Choice of Right Words
5.3.1 To be specific and concrete
5.3.2 To avoid weak verbs
5.4 Trite Expressions
5.5 Tips on Enlarging Vocabulary
Review Activities
6 Building Sentences
6.1 Complete Sentences
6.2 Types of Sentences
6.2.1 Simple sentences
6.2.2 Compound sentences
6.2.3 Complex sentences
6.2.4 Compound-complex sentences
6.3 Improving Sentences
6.3.1 Varying sentence length
6.3.2 Varying sentence constructions
6.4 Common Problems in Sentence Building
6.4.1 Typical problems with verb uses
6.4.2 Typical problems with complete sentences
6.4.3 Misplaced and dangling modifiers
Review Activities
7 Shaping Paragraphs
7.1 Paragraph Structure
7.1.1 Topic sentences
7.1.2 Supporting sentences
7.1.3 Concluding sentences
7.2 Patterns of Developing Paragraphs
7.2.1 Illustration
7.2.2 Cause and effect
7.2.3 Comparison and contrast
7.2.4 Classification
7.2.5 Definition
7.2.6 Description
7.2.7 Process
7.3 Writing the Introductory Paragraph
7.3.1 Hook
7.3.2 Connecting information
7.4 Writing the Concluding Paragraph
7.4.1 Summarizing the main points previously mentioned
7.4.2 Giving a suggestion, a personal opinion or a prediction
7.4.3 Pointing out questions or directions for future research
Review Activities
8 Writing the Whole Essay
8.1 Relationship Between Paragraphs and Essays
8.2 Four Main Kinds of Essays
8.2.1 Narration
8.2.2 Description
8.2.3 Argumentation
8.2.4 Exposition
Illustration
Process
Comparison and contrast
Cause and effect
Classification
Definition
Review Activities
9 College Writing Projects
9.1 Essay Exam
9.2 Summary
9.3 Book report
Review Activities
10 Practical Writings
10.1 Notices
10.2 Formal and Informal Invitations
10.3 Business Letters
10.4 Job Application Letters and Resumes
10.4.1 Job application letters
10.4.2 Resumes
Review Activities
Bibliography

本书系作者多年来在理工类院校教授英语写作课程所总结的理论、方法与技能。本教材介绍英语短文写作的基础知识、技巧和规则，讲解学生很可能会写到的常见应用文的写作技巧，辅以大量例文与实践练习。