English Practical Writing Course for Graduate Students

Author: Luo Lisheng
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Publish Date: 2003-02-01
Features: With the rapid development of graduate education in China and the gradual transformation of graduate English courses—where foundational courses are shifting towards skill-based and knowledge-oriented curricula—many institutions have high-level elective courses to meet the practical needs of students for foreign languages. To this end, there is a need for a writing textbook tailored to elective courses, better serving the construction and reform of graduate programs. Based on this, we have compiled the "21st Century Graduate English Elective Series Textbook · Practical Writing for Graduate English."
The "21st Century Graduate English Elective Series Textbook · Practical Writing for Graduate English" is an advanced practical English writing textbook suitable for English writing instruction for graduate students across various disciplines. Starting with fundamental paragraph writing, the book focuses on various genres such as abstracts, summaries, reports, contracts, manuals, and argumentative essays, aiming to help graduate students address practical writing challenges in their studies and research.
This textbook is an advanced practical English writing textbook suitable for English writing instruction for graduate students across various disciplines. It begins with fundamental paragraph writing, focusing on genres such as abstracts, summaries, reports, contracts, manuals, and argumentative essays, with the goal of helping graduate students solve some practical writing problems in their studies and research.
This textbook has the following main features:
1. Practicality. The textbook emphasizes writing practice and practical content, striving to align as closely as possible with future workplace demands.
2. Agency. In terms of content arrangement, it considers the active participation of learners as much as possible. It focuses on stimulating graduate students' enthusiasm for English writing and empowering them to take the lead.
3. Visual and Textual Integration. Based on the actual needs of graduate students in writing, the book includes a certain number of illustrations and tables. This facilitates the use of charts and tables to present experimental and survey data in their thesis writing.
4. Novel Content Selection. The material in this book is primarily sourced from domestic foreign language journals in the past decade, with attention paid to the novelty, interest, writability, and practicality of the content.
5. Diverse Exercises. The book provides a large number of varied writing exercises, accompanied by corresponding reference answers at the end of the book.