Interactive writing

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