《实用英文写作》是一本理论与实践相结合、实用性强的英语写作教科书。本书可供普通高等院校专、本科英语专业，高等院校成人教育英语专科、放大、职大、业大、电大以及教育学院英语专业的学生使用；也可供各类英语大专进修班的学生选用。此外，对于赴英语国家学习和工作的人员、国内从事涉外工作的人员以及其他爱好英语的学习者，本书也是一本这前程的英语写作指南。
全书分上、下篇两部分，供一学年使有处篇旨在通过简洁地介绍英语写作的基础理论，使学生通过大量的写作实践，较系统地掌握基础写作的技能；下篇介绍各种题材和体裁的英语应用文的写作技巧和范例，并配备有针对性的写作练习，帮助学生拓宽知识，学习在常工作和生活中使用较广泛的和种应用文的写作方法，逐步提高英语写作能力。

Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART ONE FUNDAMENTALS:Basic Writing
Chapter 1:Awareness,Correction,and Appropriateness
Ⅰ.Spelling
Ⅱ.Punctuation
Ⅲ.Vocabulary
Ⅳ.Style and Appropriateness
Chapter 2:Writing Sentences
Ⅰ.Types of Sentences
Ⅱ.Qualities of Good Sentences
Ⅲ.Coordination and Subordination
Ⅳ.Parallelism
Ⅴ.Variety
Ⅵ.Main Mistakes in Grammar by Students
Chapter 3:Writing Paragraphs
Ⅰ.Topic Sentence
Ⅱ.Unity and Coherence
Ⅲ.Transition and Paragraph Coherence
Ⅳ.Paragraph Developing Techniques
Chapter 4:Writing Essays
Ⅰ.Essay Development by Various Techniques
Ⅱ.What is an Essay or Composition?
Ⅲ.Steps in Writing an Essay
Ⅳ.Types of Writing
Chapter 5:Writing Summaries
Chapter 6:Using Figurative Language
PART TWO VARIETIES:Practical Writing
Chapter 7:The English Letter
Chapter 8:Personal Letters
Chapter 9:Social Letters
Chapter 10:Introduction,Recommendation and Application
Chapter 11:Business Letters
Chapter 12:Contracts
Chapter 13:Advertisements
Chapter 14:LCertificates
Chapter 15:Notices and Posters
Chapter 16:Notes,IOUs and Receipts
Appenidx 1:HANDWRITING AND FIGURES
Appenidx 2:PUNCTUATION AND CAPITAL LETTERS
Appenidx 3:CORRECTIONS SYMBOLS
GLOSSARY
SUGGESTED KDY TO THE EXERCISES