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