本书特色： 注重实用，集写作技巧、范文赏析、研究入门、文法指南之大成。
注意启发学生进行批判性思维，每一章节均有旨在开启心智、分别归于the criticalreader和the critical thinker项下的问题。
将阅读与写作有机地结合在一起，体现阅读是写作的基础、写作是阅读的成果的指导思想。
利用计算机和网络技术，提供练习、测验以及各种相关的资料，便于学生课后自主学习。
目 录
Part1 The Writing Process
Chapter 1 Becoming a Confident Writer
Chapter 2 Using Prewriting Strategies
Chapter 3 Improving Your ParagraphSkills
Chapter 4 Stating Your Thesis
Chapter 5 Supporting Your Thesis
Chapter 6 Revising and Editing Your Essays
Chapter 7 Researching for Writing
Part2 Patterns as Options
Chapter 8 Narrating and Describing
Chapter 9 Explaining a Process
Chapter 10 Choosing Classification or Division
Chapter 11 Comparing and Contrasting
Chapter 12 Explaining Causes and Effects
Chapter 13 Using Definition
Chapter 14 Arguing Persuasively
Part3 More Choices:A Collection of Readngs
1. My Name is Margaret, MAYA ANGELOU
2. Open the Door Wide for Leaders of Tomorrow, DAVIDPORTER
3. The PerpetualAdolescent, JOSEPH EPSTEIN
4. Leave Your Name at the Border, MANUEL MUNOZ
5. Yes, I Follow Islam, But l'm Not a Terrorist, NADA ELSAWY
6. The Real Media Divide, MARKUS PRIOR
7. Where to Now? WILLIAM RASPBERRY
8. Uncle Sam and Aunt Samantha, ANNA QUINDLEN
9. A Present for Popo, ELIZABETH WONG
10. The Ways of Meeting Oppression, MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
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