Unit 1 Understanding Writing 1
1．Appreciative Reading 1
2．Mini-Lecture:Understanding Writing 5
3．Writing Awareness 9
4．Writing Activities 13
5．Integrated Practice 14
6．Mechanics:commas 17
7．Model Essay:My Romance with English 17
Unit 2 Choice of Words 20
1．Appreciative Reading 20
2．Mini-Lecture:Choice of Words 21
3．Writing Awareness:Using English-English Dictionaries 25
4．Sample Analysis 26
5．Writing Activities 28
6．Integrated Practice 29
7．Mechanics:Period and Other End Marks 29
8．Model Essay:Youth 30
Unit 3 Styling Sentences 31
1．Appreciative Reading 31
2．Mini-Lecture:Styling Sentences 32
3．Writing Awareness:Recasting Your Sentences 36
4．Sample Analysis 38
5．Writing Activities 40
6．Integrated Practice 41
7．Mechanics:Semicolons and Colons 43
8．Model Essay:The Will to Win 43
Unit 4 Paragraph Writing 46
1．Appreciative Reading 46
2．Mini-Lecture:Writing Strong Paragraphs 49
3．Writing Awareness:Providing Specific Supporting Details 53
4．Sample Analysis 54
5．Writing Activities 57
6．Integrated Practice 57
7．Mechanics:Capital Letters 59
8．Model Paragraph:The Winter Months 60
Unit 5 Essay Writing 62
1．Appreciative Reading 62
2．Mini-Lecture:Essay Writing 64
3．Writing Awareness:Reader Awareness 71
4．Sample Analysis 72
5．Writing Activities 76
6．Integrated Practice 77
7．Mechanics:Quotation Marks and Italics 78
8．Model Essay:Personal Transformation 79
Unit 6 Writing Descriptive Essays 81
1．Appreciative Reading 81
2．Mini-Lecture:Writing Descriptive Essays 82
3．Writing Awareness:Figures of speech 87
4．Sample Analysis 88
5．Writing Activities 93
6．Integrated Practice 94
7．Mechanics:The Ellipsis 95
8．Model Essay:The Avenue of Stars in Hong Kong 95
Unit 7 Writing Narrative Essays 98
1．Appreciative Reading 98
2．Mini-Lecture:Writing Narrative Essays 99
3．Writing Awareness:The Tone of a Narrative Essay 107
4．Sample Analysis:An Interesting Class 108
5．Writing Activities 112
6．Integrated Practice 113
7．Mechanics:Writing Numbers 115
8．Model Essay:Fish Cheeks 115
Unit 8 Review 118
Unit 9 Writing Expository Essays(1) 125
1．Appreciative Reading 125
2．Mini Lecture:An Overview of Expository Essays 127
3．Writing Awareness:Overcoming Writer's Block 132
4．Sample Analysis 133
5．Writing Activities 136
6．Integrated Practice 137
7．Study Skill(1):Two Solutions to Writer's Block 139
8．Model Essay:The Great Wall of China 141
Unit 10 Writing Expository Essays(2) 143
1．Appreciative Reading 143
2．Mini-Lecture:Writing Cause-and-effect Essays 144
3．Writing Awareness:Opinion and Fact 148
4．Sample Analysis:Opinions of China 148
5．Writing Activities 152
6．Integrated Practice 152
7．Study Skill(2):Writing Timed Essays 154
8．Model Essay:A Student Is More Than Numbers 155
Unit 11 Writing Expository Essays(3) 157
1．Appreciative Reading 157
2．Mini-Lecture:Comparison and Contrast Essays 159
3．Writing Awareness:The Significance of Comparison 163
4．Sample Analysis 164
5．Writing Activities 169
6．Integrated Practice 169
7．Study Skill(3):Reflective Learning Journals 171
8．Model Essay:Generation Next 172
Unit 12 Writing Expository Essays(4) 174
1．Appreciative Reading 174
2．Mini-Lecture:Essays Based on Graphics 175
3．Writing Awareness:Steps for Data Description 179
4．Sample Analysis 180
5．Writing Activities 183
6．Integrated Practice 185
7．Study Skill(4):Independent Study 186
8．Model Essay:Sources of Income for Students 187
Unit 13 Writing Argumentative Essays 188
1．Appreciative Reading 188
2．Mini-Lecture:Writing Argumentative Essays 189
3．Writing Awareness:Qualifying Your Statements 194
4．Sample Analysis 195
5．Writing Activities 198
6．Integrated Practice 199
7．Study Skill(5):The"CREAM"Stragetyfor Learning 201
8．Model Essays:Can Money Buy Happiness 202
Unit 14 Practical Writing(1) 205
1．Appreciative Reading 205
2．Mini-Lecture:Writing Letters,Notes and Notices 207
3．Writing Awareness:Expressions ＆ Letter Closings 213
4．Sample Analysis:letters,notes,and notices 215
5．Writing Activities 217
6．Integrated Practice 218
7．Study Skill(6):Find the Professor within You 219
8．Model Letters:Between a Teacher and Her Students 220
Unit 15 Practical Writing(2) 224
1．Appreciative Reading 224
2．Mini-Lecture:Cover Letter,résumé,personal statement 226
3．Writing Awareness:Expressing Identity 235
4．Sample Analysis 236
5．Writing Activities 239
6．Integrated Practice 240
7．Study Skill(7):What is Your Learning Style 242
8．Model Essay:I Am 243
Unit 16 Review 245
Appendix 1．Answers for Reference 256
Bibliography 272