Great Writing

Description

The development of the Great Writing textbook is based on the high standards of student writing in American universities, and it is globally popular because:

1. It is widely recognized by multiple educational systems for its authoritative professionalism in writing.
2. It utilizes exquisite images and textual materials from National Geographic to inspire students’ interest in writing content.
3. Each level and unit sets clear writing standards, provides numerous appropriately challenging exercises, and offers graded, thematic writing specialization training, achieving comprehensive learning from basic writing to academic writing.
4. Its author, Professor Keith Folse, is a renowned linguist with over 30 years of experience teaching English to non-native speakers. He understands how to provide comprehensive writing training from the perspectives of grammar, vocabulary, and composition, enhancing children’s confidence in English writing.

The Great Writing series is primarily structured around four levels: Sentence, Paragraph, Essay, and Research, forming a complete teaching system:

Foundation: Great Sentences – Crafting good sentences.
Great Sentences for Great Paragraphs – From good sentences to good paragraphs.
Great Paragraphs – Crafting good paragraphs.
From Great Paragraphs to Great Essays – From crafting good paragraphs to crafting good essays.
Great Essays – Crafting good essays.
From Great Essays to Research – From crafting good essays to academic writing.

Great Writing 教材编写是基于美国高校对学生写作的高标准要求，它在全球广受欢迎的原因在于：

A. 在写作方面的专业权威性获得多个教育体系的普遍认可；

B.利用《国家地理》的精美图片和文字资料，激发学生对写作内容的学习兴趣；

C.每级每单元都设置了清晰的写作标准，提供了大量难度合适的练习题，分级别、按主题进行写作专项训练，实现从基础写作到学术写作的全程学习;

D.它的作者Keith Folse教授是著名的语言学家，有30多年为非母语的孩子教授英语的教学经验。深知如何从语法、词汇和行文写作三重角度进行全方位的写作训练，增强孩子们英文写作的信心。

Great Writing 系列编排主要按照句子，段落，篇章，研究四个层级。构成完整的教学体系

• 写出好句子
• 好句子到写出好段落
• 写出好段落
• 从写出好段落到写出好文章
• 写出好文章
• 从写出好文章到学术写作