Writing paper

Author: Tao Wenhao, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2005-02-01
Features: The Writing Volume starts by analyzing the writing process, pointing out the common deficiencies and shortcomings of Chinese college students and CET-4 examinees as second-language learners in terms of sentence, paragraph, and overall composition levels. The book focuses on explaining sentence-structuring skills while also addressing key aspects of word choice and composition organization rules. It emphasizes the importance of sentence revision in improving writing quality and provides numerous examples of sentences along with different revised versions, demonstrating a series of descriptive rather than prescriptive rules to readers. The book particularly highlights the training of sentence writing, proposing a "dual-layer" revision strategy for sentences: relying on sentences as a foundation and revising from two aspects. First is grammatical revision, and second is stylistic revision, tackling both simultaneously. The book presents a wealth of sentences, each accompanied by reference sentences before and after revision, along with translations. Through vivid and compelling comparative examples, it deepens readers' awareness of sentence, paragraph, and composition writing, helping them develop standard and formal English writing habits, thereby enhancing their ability to create entire essays. We believe that by analyzing the writing process in detail and learning from concrete revision examples, readers' writing skills will be effectively improved.
The book starts by analyzing the writing process, pointing out the common deficiencies and shortcomings in sentence, paragraph, and composition creation in CET-4 essays. It particularly emphasizes sentence writing training, proposing a "dual-layer" revision strategy for sentences, combining grammatical revision and stylistic refinement. At the same time, it covers key aspects of word choice and composition organization rules. The book provides detailed comparative revision examples, with a strong focus on clarity. It is suitable for college students and other CET-4 examinees as a pre-examination study material.