ACADEMIC WRITING FOR ENGLISH MAJORS EXPRESSING AN IDEAPDF电子书下载

1 Can You Recognize This Person？ 1

Pre-writing Skills 1

Free Writing 1

Focused Free Writing 2

Writing Skills 4

Space Order 4

Types of Sentences 6

Simple Sentence 7

Over-Stuffed Simple Sentences 8

Adjectives：General vs.Specific 9

Nouns：General vs.Specific 10

Editing Skills 11

Writing the First Draft 11

Rewriting the Draft 12

Proofreading the Copy 13

Manuscript Form 13

Using an Evaluation Sheet 14

Developing Fluency 15

Keeping a Journal 17

2 What Do You Think？ 18

Pre-writing Skills 18

Asking Ourselves Questions 18

Writing Skills 21

Topic Sentence 21

Supporting Sentences 24

Concluding Sentence 25

Space Transition 26

Compound Sentence 27

Common Errors with Compound Sentences 29

Coordination and Sentence Combination 30

Editing Skills 31

Tips for Proofreading 32

Developing Fluency 33

Keeping a Personal Journal 36

3 A Place Lingering in Our Memory 37

Pre-writing Skills 37

Narrowing down the Topic 37

Writing Skills 39

Essay Form 39

Showing vs.Telling 43

Using Figures of Speech 44

Complex Sentence 45

Subordination and Sentence Combination 48

Using Adverbial Clauses 49

Editing Skills 51

Spelling 52

Developing Fluency 53

Keeping a Reading Journal 56

4 A Lesson from Experience 58

Pre-writing Skills 58

Talking before Writing 59

Writing Skills 61

Time Order 61

Maintaining a Focus 64

Selecting Key Events 64

Using Description as Support 65

Tailoring the Story 65

Using Noun Clauses and Adjective Clauses 68

Editing Skills 70

Capitalization and End Punctuation Marks 71

Developing Fluency 73

Keeping a Dialogue Journal 77

5 Working as a Reporter 78

Pre-writing Skills 78

Raising Journalistic Questions 79

Interviewing 79

Writing Skills 79

The Structure of a News Story 79

The Lead 81

The Body 81

Time Transition 83

Varying Sentence Structure 84

Problems to Avoid in Constructing Compound Sentences 85

Problems to Avoid in Constructing Complex Sentences 86

Verbs：Action vs.Condition 89

Editing Skills 90

Internal Punctuation 91

Developing Fluency 93

Editing Your Own Newspaper 96

6 Putting Our Creativity to Work 98

Pre-writing Skills 98

Involving Ourselves in Group Work 98

Writing Skills 100

Character 100

Conflict 100

Plot 101

Point of View 101

Paragraphing 103

Using Dialogue 104

Writing and Punctuating Direct Quotations 105

Reducing Compound Sentences 106

Combining and Reducing Sentences 107

Verbs：General vs.Specific 108

Editing Skills 111

Other Internal Punctuation Marks 112

Developing Fluency 115

Writing a Relay Story 120

7 Talking about College Life 121

Pre-writing Skills 121

Brainstorming 122

Writing Skills 124

Climactic Order 124

Logical Transition 126

Repetition as a Means of Trarsition 126

Using Examples 127

Using Detailed Examples 128

Writing an Introduction 130

Varieties of Introduction 132

Reducing Complex Sentences 134

Combining and Reducing Sentences 135

Editing Skills 137

Modifiers 137

Developing Fluency 139

Editing Your Own Magazine 143

8 High School and University 145

Pre-writing Skills 145

Discovering Our Audience 145

Writing Skills 146

Comparison and Contrast Order 146

Logical Transition 150

Pronouns as a Means of Transition 150

Using Illustration in Comparison and Contrast 152

Writing Body Paragraphs：Unity＆Coherence 155

Sentence Variety：Beginnings 158

Editing Skills 159

Sentence Consistency 160

Developing Fluency 161

Communicating with a Keypal 166

9 Books on Our Shelves 168

Pre-writing Skills 168

Categorizing and Outlining 169

Writing Skills 170

Category Order 170

Logical Transition 173

Parallel Structure as a Means of Transition 173

Writing Body Paragraphs：Development 174

Sentence Variety：Style 178

Editing Skills 179

Agreement：Subject and Verb 180

Agreement：Pronoun and Referent 181

Developing Fluency 182

Keeping a Blog 185

10 Taking a Stand 187

Pre-writing Skills 187

Researching and Debating 188

Writing Skills 189

Cause and Effect Order 189

Mixed Orders 192

Logical Transition 197

Synonyms as a Means of Transition 197

Writing a Conclusion 198

Types of Conclusion 198

Sentence Variety：Length 200

Writing a Good Title 201

Developing Fluency 202

Keeping Alive Your Interest in Writing 209