本教材为该英语写作慕课“大学英语过程写作”的配套教材，针对在大学英语教学中常见的写作短板和问题，提供英语写作技能专项讲解与夯实训练，帮助学生提高英语写作能力，促进学生职场英语和学术英语的发展。同时将价值塑造、知识传授、能力培养融为一体，激发学生的创新思维，提高批判性思维能力，提升跨文化意识，以开放、包容、思辨的心态理解多元文化的共同点与底层逻辑，帮助学生加深对中西文化差异的认知，坚定文化自信。

Prewriting Process
Troubleshooting
1 What to write about?
2 What is a thesis statement?
3 How to put ideas together?
4-1 What is an effective argument?
4-2 What are logical fallacies?
Drafting Process
Troubleshooting
5 How to write an introduction?
6-1 How to structure the body of my essay?—Five-step exemplification
6-2 How to structure the body of my essay?—Comparison and contrast
6-3 How to structure the body of my essay?—Cause and effect
6-4 How to structure the body of my essay?—Definition
7 How to write a conclusion?
Revising Process
Troubleshooting
8-1 I feel my writing is boring.—Use of specific words
8-2 I feel my writing is boring.—Use of descriptive language, figure of speech
8-3 I feel my writing is boring.—Sentence variety
9-1 I don't know how to connect ideas.—Lexical cohesion
9-2 I don't know how to connect ideas.—Grammatical cohesion
9-3 I don't know how to connect ideas.—Thematic progression
10 I feel my writing is informal.
11 I feel my writing is wordy.
12 I don't know how to revise my essay.