Unit Ten Letter Writing 1
10.1 General Introduction 1
10.1.1 The format of a letter 1
10.1.2 The elementary parts of a letter 3
10.1.3 The optional parts of a business letter 6
10.1.4 The layout of envelope 8
10.2 Personal Letters 8
10.2.1 A letter of invitation 9
10.2.2 A letter of thanks 10
10.2.3 A letter of consolation 10
10.2.4 A letter of congratulation 11
10.2.5 A letter of complaint 12
10.2.6 A letter of apology 13
10.3 Business Letters 14
10.3.1 Different types of business letters 15
10.3.2 Rules for effective business letters 27
Exercises 30
Unit Eleven College Application Writing 32
11.1 Requesting for Admission Form 32
11.1.1 General introduction 32
11.1.2 Structure of a requesting letter for admission form 33
11.1.3 Points to note 35
11.2 Graduation Certification and Notarization 35
11.2.1 Graduation certification 35
11.2.2 Graduation notarization 37
11.3 Personal Statement 38
11.3.1 General introduction 38
11.3.2 Significance of personal statements 38
11.3.3 Structure of a personal statement 39
11.3.4 Points to note 47
11.4 Letter of Recommendation 47
11.4.1 General introduction 47
11.4.2 Importance of recommendation letters 47
11.4.3 Structure of recommendation letters 48
11.4.4 Points to note 51
Exercises 63
Unit Twelve Employment Application Writing 65
12.1 General Introduction 65
12.1.1 Introduction 65
12.1.2 Preparation 65
12.2 Cover Letter Writing 66
12.2.1 Cover letter structure 66
12.2.2 The introductory paragraph statement 67
12.2.3 The body paragraph（s），highlighting your qualifications 68
12.2.4 The concluding part 68
12.3 Resume Writing 69
12.3.1 General introduction 69
12.3.2 Resume structure 70
12.3.3 Resume templates and samples 75
12.4 Supplementary Information 80
12.4.1 Tips for application writing 80
12.4.2 Resume checklist 80
12.4.3 Vocabulary about personality traits 81
Exercises 82
Unit Thirteen Summary and Reports 83
13.1 Summary 83
13.1.1 General introduction 83
13.1.2 Writing procedures 84
13.1.3 Principles in summary writing 85
13.2 Repots 99
13.2.1 General introduction 99
13.2.2 Book repots 99
13.2.3 Feasibility reports 103
13.2.4 Progress reports 105
13.2.5 The incident reports 107
Exercises 111
Unit Fourteen CET Writing 113
14.1 General Introduction 113
14.2 Scoring Standards 114
14.2.1 Principles for scoring 114
14.2.2 Standards of scoring 114
14.2.3 Case analysis on the scoring standards 115
14.3 CET Writing Skills 118
14.3.1 My view... 119
14.3.2 How to... 122
14.3.3 A and/or B 124
14.3.4 Why... 126
14.3.5 Advantages or Disadvantages 128
14.3.6 Narrative composition 130
14.3.7 Graph/Chart composition 132
14.3.8 Practical composition 135
Exercises 137
Unit Fifteen Writing for TEM 4 and 8 139
15.1 General Introduction 139
15.2 General Scoring Standards 140
15.2.1 New types of writings of TEM 4 and TEM 8 140
15.2.2 TEM 4 and TEM 8 writing scoring standards of new types 140
15.3 TEMs Deduction of Scores 142
15.4 TEMs Scoring Analysis 142
15.4.1 Cases'analysis of TEM 4 scoring standards 142
15.4.2 Cases'analysis of TEM 8 scoring standards 146
15.5 TEMs Analysis：Irrelevance and Relevance 152
15.5.1 Material clues in TEM writing relevance 152
15.5.2 TEMs theme irrelevance 152
15.5.3 TEMs relevance analysis 153
Exercises 157
Unit Sixteen NETEM Writing 159
16.1 General Introduction 159
16.2 Scoring Standards 160
16.2.1 Official scoring standards 160
16.2.2 A case analysis of the official scoring standards 161
16.3 Writing Skills for Section A 169
16.4 Writing Skills for Section B 169
16.4.1 Format of the essay 169
16.4.2 Concrete analysis of the format 170
16.4.3 Useful sentence patterns for essay writing 180
Exercises 183
Unit Seventeen TOEFL Writing 185
17.1 An Introduction to the Writing Section of TOEFL IBT 185
17.1.1 The integrated writing task 185
17.1.2 Independent writing task 188
17.2 Scoring Standards 189
17.2.1 Official standards 189
17.2.2 Rater's comments 192
17.3 Writing Skills 199
17.3.1 Integrated writing 199
17.3.2 Independent writing 205
Exercises 208
Unit Eighteen Academic Writing Test in IELTS 211
18.1 General Introduction 211
18.2 Scoring Standards 213
18.2.1 Official scoring standards 213
18.2.2 Case study of official standards 214
18.3 Writing Skills 218
18.3.1 Principles for Task 1 218
18.3.2 Principles for Task 2 233
Exercises 240
References 245