Advanced English Writing Tutorial

Author: Wang Zhenchang
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Publish Date: 2000-12-01
Features: The "Advanced English Writing Course" consists of two volumes: a Student Book and a Teacher Book, designed for upper-level English majors in colleges and universities and English enthusiasts with a solid foundation. This textbook aims to broaden students' knowledge, consolidate and enhance their language skills, and focus on cultivating their ability to master English literary knowledge and independently appreciate literary works. This enables them to use language appropriately and fluently, elevating their ability to express ideas in English to a new level. After being used in several universities for many years, it has been proven that the effectiveness of this textbook largely meets the requirements of the newly issued "Teaching Syllabus for English Majors in Higher Education" regarding both reading and writing sections. Now, to meet the urgent needs of English teaching in more schools, this textbook has been revised and officially published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. The selected essays in this textbook include expository, argumentative, narrative, descriptive, and sample essays on the beginning and ending of articles, as well as on stylistic features. The content covers various fields such as literary criticism, linguistics, philosophy, pedagogy, history and culture, biographies of famous figures, and economic life, embodying the three types of reading required by the syllabus: factual reading, critical reading, and appreciative reading. Each category of essays is preceded by a theoretical introduction that explains the purpose, audience, linguistic characteristics, and writing techniques of that type of essay. Most of these works are by renowned authors, with rigorous structures, meticulous word choices, ingenious composition, and diverse writing styles and artistic features, making them excellent models for study and imitation.