致教師 致學(xué)習(xí)者 Part One Manuscript Form I. Arrangement U II. Word Division III. Capitalization IV. Punctuation V. Handwriting Exercises Part Two Diction I. Levels of Words II . The Meaning of Words III General and Specific Words IV. Idioms V. Figures of Speech 1. Simile 2. Metaphor 3. Personification 4. Metonymy 5. Synecdoche 6. Euphemism 7. Irony 8. Overstatement and Understatement 9. Transferred Epithet 10. Oxymoron 11. Alliteration VI. Dictionaries 1. Using Dictionaries 2. Some Good Dictionaries Exercises Part Three The Sentence I . Complete Sentences and Sentence Fragments II . Types of Sentences 1. Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative, and Exclamatory Sentences 2. Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-complex Sentences 3. Loose, Periodic and Balanced Sentences 4. Short and Long Sentences III. Effective Sentences 1. Unity 2. Coherence 3. Conciseness 4. Emphasis 5. Variety Exercises Part Four The Paragraph I . Effective Paragraphs 1. Unity …… Part Five The Whole Composition Part Six The Summary and Book Report Part Seven Formal and Informal Styles Part Eight The Research Paper Part Nine Practical Writing Part Ten Punctuation Correction Symbols in Alphabetical Order Bibliography