“新经典”高等高校英语专业系列教材根据《高等学校英语专业英语教学大纲》，并结合英语专业教学的发展而编写，包括英语语言技能、英语专业知识和专业知识三个类别，涵盖高校英语专业本料至研究生各阶段、各方向全要课程。本系列教材内容经典，注重时代性和实用性，有助于学习者进一步提富语言技能。扩充专业知识，培养应用能力，提升综合素养。
　　《英语写作手册》由北京外国语大学资深专家学者根据多年的教学和研究经验精心编写而成，自1984年推出以来，深受读者欢迎，多次重印，如今印数已超过百万册，并分别于1994年和1997年推出了修订版和中文版。《英语写作手册》（第三版）由原作者倾力修订，保留原书经典内容，并根据时代特点进行适度更新；新增了练习和参考答案，进一步强化学练并重的教学要求，是高校英语专业和非英语专业写作课程教材。
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Part One Manuscript Form
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I．Arrangement
II．Capitalization
III．W10rd Division
IV．Punctuation
V Handwriting

Part Two Diction
I．Levels of Wlords
II．The Meaning Of W．Ords
III．General and Specific W10rds
IV．Idioms
V Figures of Speech
1．Simile
2．Metaphor
3．Personification
4．Metonymy
5．Synecdoche
6．Euphemism
7．Irony
8．Overstatement and Understatemem
9．Transferred Epithet
10．Oxymoron
11．Alliteration
11．Dictionaries
1．Using Dictionaries
2．Some Good Dictionaries

Part Three The Sentence
Ⅰ．Complete Sentences and Sentence Fragments
II．Types of Sentences
1．Declarative，Interrogative，Imperative，and Exclamatory Sentences
2．Simple，Compound，Complex，and Compound-Complex Sentences
3．Loose．Periodic。and Balanced Sentences
4．Short and Long Sentences
III．Efiective Sentences
1．Unity
2．Coherence
3．Conciseness
4．Emphasis
5．Vafiety

Part Four The Paragraph
I．Criteria of an Efiective Paragraph
1．Unity
2．Coherence
3．Transition
II．Steps in Writing a Paragraph
III．Ways ofDeveloping Paragraphs
1．Development by Time
2．Development by Process
3．Development by Space
4．Development by Example or Generalization
5．Development by Comparison and Contrast
6．Development by Cause and Effect
7．Development by Classification
8．Development by Definition
9．Development by a Combination of Methods

Part Five The Whole Composition
I．Criteria of a Good Composition
II．Steps in Writing a Composition
1．Planning a Composition
2．Writing the First Draft
3．Revising the First Draft
4．Making the Final Copy
III．Three Main PaNs of a Composition
1．The Beginning
2．The Middle
3．The End
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Part Six The Summary and Book Report
Part Seven Formal and Informal Styles
Part Eight The Research Paper
Part Nine Practical Writing
Part ten Punctuation
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