基础英文写作

宋新克

目录

  • 1 Manuscript Form and Punctuation
    • 1.1 Manuscript Form
    • 1.2 Punctuation
      • 1.2.1 Basic Punctuation Marks
      • 1.2.2 Difference of Punctuation between English & Chinese
  • 2 Using Proper Words
    • 2.1 Types of Words
    • 2.2 Choice of Words
    • 2.3 Synonyms
  • 3 Making Correct and Effective Sentences
    • 3.1 Correct Sentences
    • 3.2 Coordination and Subordination
    • 3.3 Effective Sentences
  • 4 Developing Paragraphs
    • 4.1 Features of a Paragraph
    • 4.2 Ways of Developing a Paragraph
  • 5 Summarizing
    • 5.1 Uses of Summary-Writing
    • 5.2 Procedure
  • 6 Composing Essays
    • 6.1 Criteria of a Good Composition
    • 6.2 Steps in Writing a Composition
    • 6.3 The main parts of a Composition
    • 6.4 Types of Writing
Criteria of a Good Composition

The Whole Composition

The basic aim of a writing course is to develop the ability to write whole compositions (or essays, theses, papers). Students attending this course are generally asked to write short compositions of 500 to 1,000 words on their lives, studies, experiences and views on questions they are interested in. They are seldom or never asked to write fiction, drama or poetry. In other words, their compositions will mainly be prose dealing with facts. In the following pages we shall first discuss the necessary steps in writing a composition, and then the four common types of compositions students should learn to write.