美國(guó)大學(xué)英語(yǔ)寫作（第九版）
本書是一部全面、系統(tǒng)、實(shí)用的英語(yǔ)寫作教材，適合大學(xué)英語(yǔ)專業(yè)學(xué)生、非英語(yǔ)專業(yè)高年級(jí)學(xué)生以及其他希望提高英語(yǔ)寫作水平的學(xué)習(xí)者使用。
本書第一部分介紹作文的寫作過(guò)程；第二部分列舉了作文的九種寫作方法，即描寫、敘事、舉例、過(guò)程、因果、對(duì)比、定義、分類和論述；第三部分的目的是：以前兩部分為基礎(chǔ)，提高大學(xué)生的寫作能力，涉及大學(xué)階段專門題材的寫作；第四部分介紹遣詞造句的技巧；最后一部分是用于寫作練習(xí)的預(yù)讀材料。
和前幾版相比，該版進(jìn)行了一些改進(jìn)。首先，隨著因特網(wǎng)的普及，在資料的檢索方面更加快捷和廣泛，這一版加強(qiáng)了這方面的指導(dǎo)，并配備了一些網(wǎng)上學(xué)習(xí)材料。其次，本版增加了避免抄襲行為的內(nèi)容，是學(xué)生能夠更規(guī)范地表達(dá)自己的思想。第三，在第三章加強(qiáng)了對(duì)“論題”的指導(dǎo)。第四，全書共增加了五篇新的閱讀材料。
John Langan has taught reading and writing at Atlantic Cape Com-munity College near Atlantic City, New Jersey, for more than twenty-five years. The author of a popular series of college textbooks on both writing and reading, John enjoys the challenge of developing materials that teach skills in an especially clear and lively way. Before teaching, he earned advanced degrees in w...
John Langan has taught reading and writing at Atlantic Cape Com-munity College near Atlantic City, New Jersey, for more than twenty-five years. The author of a popular series of college textbooks on both writing and reading, John enjoys the challenge of developing materials that teach skills in an especially clear and lively way. Before teaching, he earned advanced degrees in writing at Rutgers University and in reading at Rowan University. He also spent a year writing fiction that,he says, "is now at the back of a drawer waiting to be discovered and acclaimed posthumously." While in school, he supported himself by working as a truck driver, a machinist, a battery assembler, a hospital attendant, and an apple packer. John now lives with his wife, Judith Nadell, near Philadelphia. In addition to his wife and Philly sports teams, his passions include reading and turning on nonreaders to the pleasure and power of books. Through Townsend Press, his educational publishing company, he has developed the nonprofit "Townsend Library"--a collection of more than thirty new and classic stories that appeal to readers of any age.