English Writing Shortcuts

Author: Li Jinda
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Publish Date: 2000-02-01
Features: The book Shortcut to Writing consists of 8 chapters (see Table of Contents). For the convenience of readers, the explanations in the book are presented in both Chinese and English. The target audience includes college students and English enthusiasts with equivalent academic qualifications. The guiding principles for writing this book are: simplifying complexity,; staying close to life; standardized language; easy to imitate. The examples and model writings selected for this book include foreign writers writing about their own countries, foreigners writing about China, Chinese people writing about China, and Chinese people writing about foreign countries. Readers can start with topics they are familiar with and interested in, through understanding and appreciation—guided imitation—free writing for self-study. Readers can follow the following order for reading and imitation:
1. Chinese people writing about China, such as: Two Persons I Know; A Stamp Incident; I Need a New Bike, etc.
2. Foreigners writing about China, such as: Different Types of American Tourists in China; Alarming Scale of Road Accidents.
3. Chinese people writing about foreign countries, such as: Splendor of the Fall; Bryant's Two Poems on Mortality.
4. Foreigners writing about their own countries, such as: Careless Drivers; What I Have Lived for; A Study of the Various Interpretations of Young Goodman Brown, etc.