College English Comprehensive Skill Training - Reading and Writing: Reading and Writing

Author: Zou Yan
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: The purpose of writing this book is to combine the training of two fundamental skills—language input "reading" and language output "writing"—to enable students to master the techniques and common strategies of English reading and writing, thereby improving reading speed and comprehension accuracy, cultivating the ability for independent and extensive reading, and being able to handle English writing problems in school and social work. The book is divided into 10 units, each including both reading and writing sections. The reading section first introduces common techniques such as skimming, scanning, guessing word meaning, understanding paragraphs, and rhetorical devices, followed by a text and subjective and objective exercises related to the unit's techniques. There is also a quick reading section with time-limited reading tasks, which sets higher requirements for students. The writing section targets the characteristics and common mistakes of Chinese students' English writing, explaining various techniques to enhance the quality of writing, including word choice, sentence variety, cohesion and coherence, outlining and summarizing, and rhetorical techniques, along with related exercises for practical application. This book is both an English reading and writing supplementary textbook that improves language proficiency while considering exam needs. It is suitable for students in undergraduate and college courses for classroom or self-study use, as well as for a broad audience of English enthusiasts with a certain foundation in English.