New Vision College English: Reading and Writing Course (2)

Author: Chen Xiaoming et al. (Editor-in-Chief)
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: To help learners better master the content of New Horizon College English (Reading and Writing Course), cultivate their comprehensive language proficiency and test-taking skills, we have compiled the book Comprehensive Guide (Reading and Writing Course). The distinctive features of this book are:
1. Emphasis on Key Points, Integration of Theory and Practice: The book lists the key words, phrases, and sentence patterns that students should master and practice in each unit. Based on provided examples, it focuses on core training. By adopting an integrated approach of teaching and practice, it reinforces learned content and accelerates the acquisition of new knowledge. Through unit tests and CET-4 mock tests, students can assess their mastery of the text and achieve the effect of learning by analogy. This is an innovative aspect of this series of textbooks—assessing learning outcomes, recognizing progress, and identifying gaps to motivate further study.
2. Expanded Content, Self-Assistance and Guidance: It broadens the scope of knowledge and enhances students' analytical skills. The book analyzes and translates complex and difficult sentences in the text, helping students grasp the structure of the passage from a discourse analysis perspective to better understand the original text. It also provides knowledge on reading and writing techniques, background information on related themes, cultural comparisons, and humorous short essays to lay a solid foundation for reading comprehension and English writing.
3. Closely Aligned with the Textbook, Convenient to Use: The textbook corresponds to each unit of the main course, with clear emphasis on key points in each chapter for easy reference. Additionally, each unit includes synchronized self-assessment tests to consolidate learning and help students improve reading skills, master test-taking techniques, and comprehensively review vocabulary, phrases, and grammatical structures commonly encountered in exams. The selected vocabulary in the self-assessment tests covers a wide range, with targeted grammar exercises. The reading passages are familiar in topic, standardized in language, and appropriately challenging in difficulty.
The book is organized into 10 units, each consisting of background knowledge, core vocabulary and phrases, word-focused explanations, phrase-focused explanations, text summaries, discourse analysis and writing, breakthrough of difficult sentences, text translation, answers and detailed explanations to text exercises, self-assessment tests for text exercises, synchronized intensive tests, and a toolbox.
This book is suitable for college students currently using New Horizon College English (Reading and Writing Course). It can also serve as a teaching reference for English teachers and as a reading material for self-study learners.