American Reading and Writing Practice: American Short Story: American Short Story

Author: Costa
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: This book focuses on American short stories as its subject matter, with fundamental English (vocabulary, grammar) explanations as its foundation. It combines reading and writing exercises to primarily enhance readers' American English thinking skills. (Through exercises) it strengthens readers' divergent thinking, enabling students to not only master the use of basic English but also deepen their overall English proficiency and improve their appreciation of American literature—"achieving multiple goals with one arrow." This book selects nine renowned American short story masterpieces, which can be considered a small treasure in American culture and history. It is suitable for intermediate English learners to appreciate, especially those studying English intensive reading and writing. The content is rich, and the grammatical features are specific and distinct. Tenses, sentence structures, and types of words will be discussed and practiced in various question types after each article. The grammar exercises are derived from the articles, and the grammatical structures in each exercise are applied within the text.