Lesson One
TEXT The Geese
NOTES ON READING AND WRITING
1. Narration
2. A General Discussion of the Narrative Features of the Text
EXERCISES
Lesson Two
TEXT Mr. Know-All
NOTES ON READING AND WRITING:
A General Discussion of the Narrative Features of the Text
EXERCISES
Lesson Three
TEXT Rope
NOTES ON READING AND WRITING:
A General Discussion of the Narrative Features of the Text
EXERCISES
Lesson Four
TEXT A Field of Silence
NOTES ON READING AND WRITING:
l. Description
2. A General Discussion of the Descriptive Features of the Text
EXERCISES
Lesson Five
TEXT New York By Gay Talese
NOTES ON READING AND WRITING:
A General Discussion of the Descriptive Features
of the Text
EXERCISES
Lesson Six
TEXT The Absence of Windows
NOTES ON READING AND WRITING:
A General Discussion of the Descriptive Features
of the Text
EXERCISES
Lesson Seven
TEXT Discovering the Self
NOTES ON READING AND WRITING:
1. Exposition
2. A General Discussion of the Expository Features of the Text
EXERCISES
Lesson Eight
TEXT Vices and Pleasures: The View from Eighty
NOTES ON READING AND WRITING:
A General Discussion of the Expository Features
of the Text
EXERCISES
Lesson Nine
TEXT The Higher Meaning of Marlboro Cigarettes
NOTES ON READING AND WRITING:
A General Discussion of the Expository Features
of the Text
EXERCISES
Lesson Ten
TEXT Do We Neecl the Family?
NOTES ON READING AND WRITING:
1. Argumentation
2. A General Discussion of the Argumentative Features of the Text
3. A Note on the Writing of the Research Paper
(Part Ⅰ )
A. The Nature and the Scope of the Task
B. The Preliminary Steps
EXERCISES
Lesson Eleven
TEXT Women Are Prisoners of Their Sex
NOTES ON READING AND WRITING:
1. A General Discussion of the Argumentative Features of the Text
2. A Note on the Writing of the Research Paper
(Part Ⅱ )
C. The Drafts
EXERCISES
Lesson Twelve
TEXT Is America Falling Apart?
NOTES ON READING AND WRITING:
1. A General Discussion of the Argumentative
Features of the Text
2. A Note on the Writing of the Research Paper
(Part Ⅲ )
D. Presentation
EXERCISES
APPENDIX Two Student Research Papers
1. A Faithful Record of Ireland: On James Joice's Dubliners
2. On "Adjective+ Infinitive" Construction
APPENDIX Ⅰ A Suggested List of Topics for Research Paper
APPENDIX Ⅱ Vocabulary
APPENDIX Ⅲ A General List of Idioms and Expressions
