2013年推薦新書~
Effective College Writing：A Process-Genre Approach
(Second Edition)
Author：KC Lee．Happy Goh．Janet Chan．Ying Yang
Publisher：McGraw-Hill Education (2009)
ISBN：9780071269612
Effective College Writing is specifically written for pre-tertiary or tertiary students in Asian countries where the medium of instruction is English. The book aims to help students cope with writing in an academic setting through the use of the process-genre approach. Students will learn how to plan, organize, research, and produce different genres of academic writing through a variety of relevant and challenging activities and tasks. Reflection exercises, self-evaluation checklists, and peer review checklists are also included to help students be more autonomous in their learning.
Each chapter of the book includes：
- objectives, explaining what students will learn；
- an introduction to a genre, outlining its rhetorical structure and specialized features；
- useful expressions, structures, and transitional markers peculiar to the genre
- text analysis, showing students how to identify thesis statement, topic sentences, and supporting ideas, using examples of students’ writing；
- reflection, asking students to think about and reinforce what they have learned；
- writing tasks, emphasizing the process approach to genre writing.
This book is to be accompanied by a teacher’s manual consisting of suggestions on how lessons can be carried out, additional activities for practice, examples of non-expository passages, and useful supplementary material that can be photocopied.