本书吸取了国外英语写作新的特色和成果，结合我国的写作理论，注重写作技巧的掌握和创新写作能力的培养，共包括17章内容。书中配有大量新颖的实例和典型范文，对课堂教学和自学者都大有裨益。
　　本书适用于英语专业本科高年级学生和研究生，也是其他英语学习者自学的极好参考书。

Part 1 Introduciton
1.1 Effective Writing
1.2 Demands of the Course
1.3 Autobiography
Part 2 Reaching Your Audience
2.1 Reaching Your Audience
2.2 Style,Voice,and Tone
2.3 Style,Through Vocabulary and Diction
2.4 Inappropriate Word Usage
Part 3 Polishing Senterces
3.1 Sentence Fragments
3.2 Sentence Patterns
3.3 Precise Vocabulary for Complete Ideas
3.4 Symbols That Stand for Errors in an Essay
Part 4 Polishing Paragraphs
4.1 Paragraph Structure
4.2 Topic Sentence
4.3 Patterns for Presenting Information
4.4 Developing Levels of Specjficity
4.5 Paragraph Size
Part 5 Main Idea and Pattern of Organization
Part 6 Gathering Information and Ideas:Memory,Reading and Observation
Part 7 Gather Information and Ideas:Interviewing
Part 8 Elemaents of Writing Essays
Part 9 Comparison-and-contrast
Part 10 Argument
Part 11 Inductive Reasoning
Part 12 Deductive Reasoning
Part 13 Writing a Research Paper
Part 14 Procedures in Graduate Study
Part 15 How to Write an Abstract
Part 16 Quoting and Documentiong
Part 17 Composing a Poem
Appendices
Glossary
Bibliography