Advanced English Writing Tutorial (Student Book)

Author: Wang Zhenchang et al
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Publish Date: 1996-08-01
Features: The Advanced English Writing Course consists of two volumes—Student Book and Teacher Book—designed for senior English majors in higher education institutions 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 years of use in some universities, it has been proven that the teaching effectiveness of this textbook largely meets the requirements of the newly issued Teaching Syllabus for English Majors in Higher Education regarding reading and writing sections. Now, to meet the urgent needs of English teaching in more schools, this revised textbook has been officially published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.
The selected essays in this textbook include expository, argumentative, narrative, descriptive, and exemplary essays on the beginning and ending of articles, as well as stylistic writing. Their content covers various fields such as literary criticism, linguistics, philosophy, pedagogy, history, 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. Before each category of essays, there is a theoretical introduction that explains the purpose, audience, linguistic features, and writing techniques of that type of essay. Most of these works are by renowned authors, with rigorous structures, refined word choices, ingenious composition, and distinct writing styles and artistic characteristics, making them excellent examples for study and imitation.