Chapter One Basic Writing Format 1
1．Size of Paper 1
2．Margins 1
3．Indent 1
4．Size of Words and Line Space 2
5．Punctuation Marks 2
6．Title Page 2
7．Ways of Writing Titles 2
8．Capitals 4
9．Italics/Underlining 5
10．Hyphenation 7
Exercises 10
Chapter Two Punctuations 13
1．Period/Full Stop(.) 13
2．Question Mark(?) 14
3．Exclamation Point(!) 15
4．Comma(,) 15
5．Colon(:) 17
6．Semicolon(;) 18
7．Quotation Marks(" ")(' ') 20
8．Dash(—) 22
9．Parentheses(()) 24
10．Slash(/) 25
11．Ellipsis Points(...) 26
Exercises 26
Chapter Three Writing Sentences 33
1．Building Simple Sentences 33
2．Building Compound Sentences 34
3．Building Complex Sentences 37
4．Common Errors 42
Exercises 45
Chapter Four Writing Paragraphs 57
1．Paragraph Organization 57
2．Basic Paragraph Structure 57
3．Ways of Developing Paragraphs 60
4．Editing Paragraphs 71
Exercises 89
Chapter Five Writing Essays 98
1．Structure of an Essay 98
2．Steps of Writing an Essay 98
3．Patterns of Developing an Essay 99
Exercises 127
Chapter Six Writing Research Papers 133
1．Introduction 133
2．Steps in Writing Research Papers 133
3．Structure of Research Papers 134
4．Writing Bibliography:APA and MLA Styles 138
5．A Sample of Research Paper 141
Exercises 143
Chapter Seven Writing Abstracts 144
1．Introduction 144
2．Elements in an Abstract 144
3．Characteristics of an Abstract 146
4．Types of Abstracts 147
5．Common Sentence Patterns in Writing Abstracts 151
6．Samples of Abstracts 152
Exercises 159
Key to Exercises 162
Bibliography 178