This is a front-line book on writing that comes classroom-ready with the essentiale lements students need to confront the challenges and overcome the difficulties inacquiring a structurally new writing system. This book offers a combined program of knowledge and classroom-tested activities, including sensible advice, for developing specific skills and techniques on how to write effective 3- and 5- paragraph essays.The target audience can be teachers desirous of a proven set of progressive teaching modules, as well as students whose English proficiency ranges from upper basic toupper intermediate level and beyond, and who wish to become skilled at the three main stages of writing: planning, developing and revising. In addition, The IBC of Writing offers excellent preparation for more advanced writing techniques such as academic and report writing, detailed material organization, mixed rhetoricalpatterns, abstract and concrete terms, effective argumentation, and the finer points of style and rhythm, all of which and more are covered in The IBC of Advonced Writing.
This book is dedicated to the pragmatic spirit of thinkers such as Theodore Levitt, the Harvard professor who coined the term \"globalization.\" His most famous line, that People don't want quarter-inch drills, they want quarter-inch holes,\" has beenquoted by generations of marketing people. Paraphrasing Professor Levitt's powerful and enduring insight for our purposes: it is not the method itself but the resulting condition that teachers and students desire from the use of a method.
FOREWORD by Ji Yuhua
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION TO THE CHINA VERSION
PART 1:THE WRITING PROCESS
LESSON 1-INTERNATIONAL IBC SYSTEM
LESSON 2-DE-CONSTRUCTION
LESSON 3-FOUNDATIONS OF GOOD WRITING
LESSON 4-STAR POINTS WHEN WRITING AN ESSAY
LESSON 5-PLANNING TO WRITE AND WRITING TO PLAN
LESSON 6-INDUCTIVE VERSUS DEDUCTIVE REASONING
LESSON 7-REVIEW AND EXERCISES
LESSON 8-INTRODUCTIONS AND CONCLUSIONS
LESSON 9-BODY TYPES
LESSON 10-INTERVAL REVIEW
LESSON 11-DESCRIPTION PART 1
LESSON 12-DESCRIPTION PART 2
LESSON 13-NARRATION PART 1
LESSON 14-NARRATION PART 2
LESSON 15-PRESENTATIONS
LESSON 16-SEMESTER REVIEW
PART 2:THE WRITTEN PRODUCT
LESSON 17-PREWRITING REVIEW
LESSON 18-SENTENCE SKILLS
LESSON 19-TEM WRITING
LESSON 20-ARGUMENTATION
LESSON 21-PROCESS
LESSON 22-CAUSE/EFFECT
LESSON 23-COMPARISON/CONTRAST
LESSON 24-DEFINITION
LESSON 25-DIVISION/CLASSIFICATION
LESSON 26-EXAMPLES
LESSON 27-INTERVAL REVIEW
LESSON 28-REVISION TECHNIQUES
LESSON 29-IMPLIED MEANING
LESSON 30-HAIKU
LESSON 31-PRESENTATIONS
LESSON 32-FINAL REVIEW
APPENDICES
INDEX