Chapter One Prewriting Strategies 1
Section Ⅰ Writing and Prewriting 1
Section Ⅱ Prewriting Techniques 3
Unit 1 Brainstorming 4
Unit 2 Free-writing 7
Unit 3 Questioning 10
Unit 4 Mapping 12
Unit 5 Preparing an Outline 14
Unit 6 Cubing 16
Unit 7 Journal Writing 19
Chapter Two Writing the First Draft 22
Section Ⅰ Paragraph and Essay Structure 22
Unit 8 The Structure of a Paragraph 22
Unit 9 The Structure of an Essay 34
Section Ⅱ Types of Development Patterns 40
Unit 10 List 41
Unit 11 Process 49
Unit 12 Definition 58
Unit 13 Classification 67
Unit 14 Cause and Effect 76
Unit 15 Argumentation 85
Unit 16 Narration 94
Unit 17 Description 104
Chapter Three Revising and Editing 115
Section Ⅰ Revising 116
Section Ⅱ Editing 124
Unit 18 Countable Nouns and Uncountable Nouns 124
Unit 19 Collective Nouns 126
Unit 20 Proper Nouns 129
Unit 21 Vocatives 130
Unit 22 Pronouns 132
Unit 23 Prepositional Phrases 136
Unit 24 Word Order 138
Unit 25 Parallelism 142
Unit 26 Subject,Object and Predicative 145
Unit 27 Grammatical Subject and Logical Subject 147
Unit 28 Appositive and Attributive 150
Unit 29 Punctuation 152
Unit 30 Frequently Used Wrong Expressions 155
Key to Exercises 159
Word Grocery 192
Reference 200