ContentsPart One Sentence WritingChapter Ⅰ Sentence StructureUnit One Elements of the Sentence and Types of Sentences 1
Chapter Ⅱ Effective SentencesUnit Two Using Coordination,Subordination and parallelism 17
Unit Three Achieving Emphasis 34
Unit four Achieving variety 42
Chapter Ⅲ Sentence ProblemsUnit FiveFragments,the Comma Fault and Run-on Sentences 53
Unit Six Dangling,Misplaced Modifiers and Incomplete Construc-tions 64
Part Two Paragraph WritingChapter Ⅳ Paragraph StructureUnit Seven What Is a Paragraph 83
Chapter Ⅴ Effective ParagraphsUnit Eight Maintaining Paragraph Unity 100
Unit Nine Achieving Paragraph Coherence 107
Chapter Ⅵ Developing the ParagraphUnit Ten Methods of Paragraph Development 126
Part Three Essay WritingChapter Ⅶ Developing an EssayUnit Eleven Discovering and Limiting a Subject 146
Unit Twelve Developing the Essay 157
Chapter Ⅷ Organizing the EssayUnit Thirteen Organizing and Writing the Essay 170
Chapter Ⅸ Types of WritingUnit Fourteen Narrative Writing 187
Unit Fifteen Descriptive Writing 197
Unit Sixteen Expository Writing 216
Unit SeventeenArgumentative Writing 226
Chapter Ⅹ Summary WritingUnit Eighteen Learning to Write a Summary 235
Part Four Practical WritingChapter Ⅺ Letter WritingUnit Ninetten The Form of Letters 259
Unit Twenty The Body of Personal Letters 269
Unit Twenty-One The Body of Business Letters 283
Chapter Ⅻ Note WritingUnit Twenty-Two Note and Receipt Writing 297
Chapter Ⅹ Ⅲ Announcement and Invita-tion WritingUnit Twenty-Three Announcement 303
Unit Twenty-Four Invitation 309
Part Five DictionChapter Ⅹ Ⅳ Controlling Your DictionUnit Twenty-Five Choosing Appropriate Words 321
Unit Twenty-Six Choosing Exact Words 331
Unit Tw enty-Seven Being Concise 344
Chapter Ⅹ Ⅴ Improving Your Vocabu-laryUnit Twenty-EightFormal and Informal Words 354
Unit Twenty-Nine Favourable and Unfavourable Words 367
Part Six Punctuation and MechanicsChapter Ⅹ Ⅵ PunctuationUnit Thirty End Punctuations 378
Unit Thirty-One Other Punctuations 391
Part Seven Research Paper WritingChapter Ⅹ Ⅶ MechanicsUnit Thirty-Two Capitals，Italics and Abbreviations 413
Unit Thirty-Three Numbers and Hyphenation 426
Chapter Ⅹ Ⅷ Research PapersUnit Thirty-Four Finding and Limiting a Research Paper Topic 436
Unit Thirty-Five Making a Working Bibliography and Working With Sources 450
Unit Thirty-Six Writing the Paper 466
Unit Thirty-Seven Documenting Sources 480
Bibliograthy 489