《高级英文写作教程（学生用书）（第2版）》分学生用书和教师用书两册。《高级英文写作教程(学生用书)》为其中的学生用书，供高等学校英语专业高年级教学和有一定基础的英语爱好者使用。《高级英文写作教程（学生用书）（第2版）》旨在扩大学生的知识领域，巩固和提高学生的语言技能，重点培养学生驾驭英语语言文学知识和对文学作品独立赏析的能力，从而使其能得体而流畅地运用语言，把用英语表达思想的能力提高到一个新的高度。经部分高校多年试用，证明《高级英文写作教程（学生用书）（第2版）》的使用效果基本符合新颁布的《高等学校英语专业教学大纲》中关于阅读部分和写作部分的要求。
《高级英文写作教程(学生用书)(第2版)》以美国康涅狄格大学(University of Connecticut)的Thomas Kane和Leonard Peters编写的Writing Prose为蓝本精心改编而成。让学生通过细致地阅读经典英语作品，锻炼驾驭英语语言的能力。
名家名作，语言优美考究，写作风格多样；名师讲解，介绍作品背景，分析语言难点；读写结合，培养欣赏能力，提高写作水平。
本册教师用书是根据《高级英文写作教程》课后练习中所提出的问题而编写的。课后练习包括写作对象和目的、篇章结构、句法分析和词汇研究四个部分，涉及到写作的意图与对象，文章的组织与结构、段落的过渡与扩展、句型的选择与运用、词汇的分析与比较、语言的逻辑与表达、文体风格与语气、修辞与典故、节秦与韵律、引语与暗语、构词与词源等各方面的问题。其中有些问题相当微妙、难解，我们在编写答案时颇感棘手，很难做出绝对肯定或否定的回答。再者，由于读者对原文理解角度不同和观点上的差异，得出的结论与答案也不会全然一致，有的甚至截然不同，这是可以理解的。《高级英文写作教程(学生用书)(第二版)》所提供的只是参考性的答案。
Exposition
Lesson 1
The Delicate Art of the Forest
by Mark Twain
Lesson 2
The Emotive Component of Meaning
by Louis B. Salomon
Lesson 3
The Big Bull Market
by Frederick Lewis Allen
Lesson 4
The Evil of My Tale
by T. E. Lawrence
Lesson 5
Oxford As I See It
by Stephen Leacock
Definition
Lesson 6
Pedantry
by Jacques Barzun
Lesson 7
Plot
by E. M. Forster
Lesson 8
Loneliness... An American Malady
by Carson McCullers
Judgment
Lesson 9
The Population of Augustan Rome
by Henry Thompson Rowell
Lesson 10
General George Armstrong Custer
by Ralph K. Andrist
Argument
Lesson 11
Our Unfortunate Convicts
by George Bernard Shaw
Lesson 12
The Third Knights Speech
by T. S. Eliot
Lesson 13
Social Responsibility in Science and Art
by Alex Comfort
Description
Lesson 14
The Delicatessen
by Thomas Mann
Lesson 15
Chestnut Street
by Christopher Morley
Lesson 16
Tourists
by Nancy Mitford
Lesson 17
Golden Goo
by Normal Lewis
Description of Character
Lesson 18
The Boston Merchant
by Samuel Eliot Morison
Lesson 19
Mr. and Mrs. X
by Edmund Wilson
Lesson 20
John Masefield
by Beverley Nichols
Lesson 21
My Average Uncle
by Robert P. Tristram Coffin
Narration
Lesson 22
The Unicorn in the Garden
by James Thurber
Lesson 23
The Last Fiesta
by Laurie Lee
Lesson 24
Willie Stone
by R. L. Duffus
Lesson 25
Short Trip
by Robert Lipsyte
Beginnings and Closings
Lesson 26
Education as Philosophy
by Brand Blanshard
Lesson 27
Johnson
by F. L. Lucas
Lesson 28
Street Haunting—— A London Adventure
by Virginia Woolf
Style
Lesson 29
The Evolutionary Appetite
by George Bernard Shaw
Lesson 30
Young Joan
by Pierre Champion
Lesson 31
Courtesy to Readers——Clarity
by F. L. Lucas
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