《大学英语互动写作教程》内容从对中国语境下英语写作的宏观认识、措词、句式表现、段落和短文成文写作循序渐进过渡到描述文、记叙文、说明文、议论文和应用文的体裁写作。
全书共有16个单元,每个单元结构统一,涵盖阅读欣赏、专题讲解、写作意识、范文分析、写作活动、语言练习、写作技术和短文样文八个部分的内容。
Unit 1 Understanding 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 2 Choice 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 3 Styling 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 4 Paragraph 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 5 Essay 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 6 Writing 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 7 Writing 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 8 Review
Unit 9 Writing 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 10 Writing 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 11 Writing 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 12 Writing 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 13 Writing 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 14 Practical 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 15 Practical 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 16 Review
Appendix 1. Answers for Reference
Bibliography