CONTENTS 1
CHAPTER ONE DICTION 1
Section Ⅰ BASIC PRINCIPLES IN USING WORDS 1
Section Ⅱ PARTS OF SPEECH 31
CHAPTER TWO THE SENTENCE 42
Section Ⅰ TYPES OF SENTENCES 42
Section Ⅱ SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT 46
Section Ⅲ SENTENCE FRAGMENTS 48
Section Ⅳ RUN-ON SENTENCES 51
Section Ⅴ CONFUSING SHIFTS 54
Section Ⅵ MISPLACED MODIFIERS 56
Section Ⅶ DANGLING MODIFIERS 59
Section Ⅷ PRONOUN AGREEMENT AND PRONOUN REFERENCE 62
Section Ⅸ PARALLEL CONSTRUCTION 65
Section Ⅹ MIXED CONSTRUCTION 68
Section Ⅺ INCOMPLETE CONSTRUCTION 70
Section Ⅻ CHINESE-ENGLISH MISTAKES 72
Section ⅩⅢ MAKING SFNTENCES CONCISE 84
Section ⅪⅤ OTHER MISTAKES IN SENTENCE WRITING 87
CHAPTER THREE THE PARAGRAPH 91
Scetion Ⅰ BASIC ELEMENTS OF A PARAGRAPH 91
Section Ⅱ THE TOPIC SENTENCE 93
Section Ⅲ UNITY 102
Section Ⅳ COHERENCE 110
Section Ⅴ TRANSITION SIGNALS 116
Section Ⅵ RICHNESS 123
CHAPTER FOUR THE ESSAY 129
Section Ⅰ WHAT IS AN ESSAY? 129
Section Ⅱ STEPS IN WRITING AN ESSAY 137
Section Ⅲ TYPES OF WRITING 146
CHAPTER FIVE LETTER WRITING 173
Section Ⅰ INTRODUCTION 173
Section Ⅱ LETTER LAY-OUT 174
Section Ⅲ THE ENVELOPE 181
Section Ⅳ PERSONAL LETTERS 184
Section Ⅴ BUSINESS LETTERS 188
CHAPTER SIX TECHNICAL WRITING 200
Section Ⅰ INTRODUCTION TO TECHNICAL WRITING 200
Section Ⅱ LINGUISTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF TECHNICAL WRITING 202
Section Ⅲ TECHNICAL DESCRIPTIONS 207
Section Ⅳ WRITING INSTRUCTIONS 210
Section Ⅴ INTERPRETATION OF DATA 212
CHAPTER SEVEN SUPPLEMENTARY EXERCISES GLOSSARY 254