四级英语作文经典辅导材料.pdf

Writing Skills and Practic Cont nts Part On Brief Introduction to College English Writing 2 ………7 Part Two Methods of Developing Paragraphs 8 ………10 Part Thr Various Forms of Writing (from appreciation to production) 10……..21 Part Four Selected Model Compositions 21…….30 Part Fiv A List of Most Commonly Employed Sentence Patterns 30…….32 Compiled by The First Section of Teaching and Research, Department of College English Teaching Studies, Qingdao University Part One Brief Introduction to College English Writing I. Format and General Requirements of College English Writing 1. Format of College English Writing It is stipulated in College English Curriculum Requirements ( 《大学英语课程教学要求》) that college students should be able to write within 30 minutes a short composition of 120 words on a general topic or an outline. The composition should be basically complete in content, appropriate in diction and coherent in discourse. More often than not, college students are expected to write compositions based on topic sentences, outlines given in Chinese, key words, visual aids or given situations. Accordingly, it is normally of great help to decide on what style (narration, exposition, description or argumentation) to be employed to develop the whole essay, and then to determine the controlling idea contained in each of the topic sentences/Chinese outlines, or to state the controlling idea at the very beginning of each paragraph in respect of writing based on key words, visual aids or given situations. 2. General Requirements of College En