Unit 1Understanding Writing
1.Appreciative Reading
2. Mini-Lecture : Understanding
Writing
3.Writing Awareness
4. Writing Activities
5.Integrated Practice
6. Mechanics : Commas
7.Model Essay: My Romance with
English
Unit 2Choice of Words
1. Appreciative Reading
2.Mini-Lecture : Choice of
Words
3.Writing Awareness: Using
English-English Dictionaries
4.Sample Analysis
5. Writing Activities
6.Integrated Practice
7.Mechanics: Period and Other
End Marks
8. Model Essay : Youth
Unit 3Styling Sentences
1.Appreciative Reading
2.Mini-Lecture : Styling
Sentences
3.Writing Awareness: Recasting
Your Sentences
4. Sample Analysis
5. Writing Activities
6.Integrated Practice
7.Mechanics: Semicolons and
Colons
8.Model Essay: The Will to
Win
Unit 4Paragraph Writing
1.Appreciative Reading
2.Mini-Lecture: Writing Strong
Paragraphs
3.Writing Awareness: Providing
Specific Supporting Details
4.Sample Analysis
5. Writing Activities
6. Integrated Practice
7.Mechanics : Capital
Letters
8.Model Paragraph: The Winter
Months
Unit 5Essay Writing
1.Appreciative Reading
2. Mini-Lecture- Essay Writing
3.Writing Awareness: Reader
Awareness
4.Sample Analysis
5. Writing Activities
6.Integrated Practice
7.Mechanics: Quotation Marks
and Italics
8.Model Essay: Personal
Transformation
Unit 6Writing Descriptive Essays
1.Appreciative Reading
2.Mini-Lecture: Writing
Descriptive Essays
3.Writing Awareness : Figures
of speech
4. Sample Analysis
5. Writing Activities
6. Integrated Practice
7.Mechanics : The
Ellipsis
8. Model Essay: The Avenue of Stars in
Hong Kong
Unit 7Writing Narrative Essays
1.Appreciative Reading
2.Mini-Lecture: Writing
Narrative Essays
3.Writing Awareness: The Tone
of a Narrative Essay
4. Sample Analysis: An Interesting
Class
5. Writing Activities
6.Integrated Practice
7.Mechanics: Writing
Numbers
8. Model Essay: Fish Cheeks
Unit 8Review
Unit 9Writing Expository Essays 1
1. Appreciative Reading
2.Mini Lecture: An Overview of
Expository Essays
3.Writing Awareness:
Overcoming Writer''s Block
4.Sample Analysis
5. Writing Activities
6. Integrated Practice
7. Study Skill 1 : Two Solutions to
Writer''s Block
8.Model Essay: The Great Wall
of China
Unit 10Writing Expository Essays 2
1.Appreciative Reading
2. Mini-Lecture: Writing Cause-and-effect
Essays
3.Writing Awareness: Opinion
and Fact
4.Sample Analysis : Opinions
of China
5. Writing Activities
6.Integrated Practice
7.Study Skill 2 : Writing
Timed Essays
8.Model Essay: A Student Is
More Than Numbers
Unit 11Writing Expository Essays 3
1.Appreciative Reading
2.Mini-Lecture: Comparison and
Contrast Essays
3.Writing Awareness: The
Significance of Comparison
4. Sample Analysis
5. Writing Activities
6. Integrated Practice
7. Study Skill 3 : Reflective Learning
Journals
8.Model Essay: Generation
Next
Unit 12Writing Expository Essays 4
1. Appreciative Reading
2.Mini-Lecture: Essays Based
on Graphics
3.Writing Awareness: Steps for
Data Description
4.Sample Analysis
5. Writing Activities
6.Integrated Practice
7. Study Skill 4 : Independent
Study
8. Model Essay : Sources of Income for
Students
Unit 13Writing Argumentative Essays
1.Appreciative Reading
2.Mini-Lecture : Writing
Argumentative Essays
3.Writing Awareness:
Qualifying Your Statements
4.Sample Analysis
5. Writing Activities
6.Integrated Practice
7. Study Skill 5 : The "CREAM" Stragety
for Learning
8.Model Essays: Can Money Buy
Happiness
Unit 14Practical Writing 1
1.Appreciative Reading
2.Mini-Lecture: Writing
Letters, Notes and Notices
3.Writing Awareness:
Expressions Letter Closings
4.Sample Analysis : letters,
notes, and notices
5. Writing Activities
6.Integrated Practice
7.Study Skill 6 : Find the
Professor within You
8.Model Letters: Between a
Teacher and Her Students
Unit 15Practical Writing 2
1.Appreciative Reading
2.Mini-Lecture: Cover Letter,
resume , personal statement
3.Writing Awareness:
Expressing Identity
4. Sample Analysis
5. Writing Activities
6.Integrated Practice
7.Study Skill 7 : What is
Your Learning Style
8.Model Essay : I Am
Unit 16Review
Appendix 1. Answers for Reference
Bibliography