English Five-Paragraph Essay Method: Advanced College Writing Tutorial (Third Edition)

Author: Cai Jigang
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Publish Date: 2006-11-01
Features: This book is the sister volume of "The Ten-Sentence Method for English Composition—Intermediate Writing Course for College English." It is also a writing textbook for the higher level after the College English Test Band 4 (CET-4). The target readers are candidates preparing for postgraduate entrance exams, doctoral entrance exams, TOEFL, IELTS, and exams of similar standards. The book is divided into eight chapters with 65 reference model essays skillfully interspersed throughout. The first six chapters focus on text structure, primarily introducing the six basic structures of five-paragraph essays and their writing methods. Chapter 7 is dedicated to paragraphs and structure, emphasizing the general writing techniques and strategies for the introduction, body, and conclusion of five-paragraph essays. Chapter 8 is on language and rhetoric, highlighting how to improve the quality of essays from the aspects of word choice, sentence structure, and rhetorical devices, with the aim of inspiring readers.