Chapter 1 Vocabulary Power Building 1
1.1 Is there any relation between word types and their expressive advantages? 2
1.2 How do words play a role in figures of speech? 8
1.3 What can emotive words do in your writing? 13
1.4 What might be your confusable words? 16
1.5 Are you strategic enough in word-building? 21
Chapter 2 Sentence Writing(Ⅰ) 31
2.1 Sentence grammar 31
2.2 Sentence variety 51
Chapter 3 Effective Sentence Writing(Ⅱ) 64
3.1 What are the secrets of information flow with sentences? 64
3.2 How to facilitate the in formation flow with different sentence structures? 67
3.3 What information is to be emphasized in a sentence and how to achieve the emphasis? 75
Chapter 4 Paragraph Development 88
4.1 How is a paragraph usually organized? 89
4.2 How can we write an effective paragraph? 93
4.3 What are the qualities of a good paragraph? 103
4.4 How much development is enough? 110
4.5 How can we plan a paragraph? 113
Chapter 5 Essay Development:Types,Qualities,and Strategies 123
5.1 Description 124
5.2 Narration 134
5.3 Exposition 144
5.4 Argumentation 172
Chapter 6 Editing Strategies 190
6.1 Shall we have a focus for editing? 191
6.2 How to edit in an ordered way? 194
6.3 Why not guide your editing with a checklist? 232
6.4 Can you read and write with editing symbols? 234
6.5 How to self-edit and peer-edit? 238
Chapter 7 "Test-wise"Writing 246
7.1 Secrets for improving your CET writing performance 247
7.2 Preparation for the NGETE writing 255
7.3 Test-wise in TOFEL writing 265
7.4 Successful in IELTS writing 278
Chapter 8 Being an Information-Literate Writer 291
8.1 What types of information needs may arise in the process of writing? 292
8.2 How can a comfortable digital writing space be created using Microsoft Word? 293
8.3 In what ways can searching the Web be helpful to improve your writing? 300
8.4 What resources can help you to hunt for the right word? 312
8.5 Tools,resources,skills and competencies 315
References 319