Part One THE STUDY Chapter 1 Why learning English writing 1.1 Why learning to write 1.2 Why learning English writing Chapter 2 How we write in today's China 2.1 Words and empty words:The writing of our press 2.2 A matter of taste 2.3 How we write about books 2.4 How we write about literature 2.5 Attitude toward people 2.6 Reform from the one-phrase writing 2.7 More about the one-phrase writing:Captions and titles Chapter 3 Different writings:The National Geographic way and the China Pictorial way 3.1 Selection One with comments 3.2 Selection Two with comments 3.3 Selection Three with comments 3.4 Selection Four:More poor writings 3.5 Less than poor writing:Selection Five with comments 3.6 Selection Six?Articles about activity 3.7 Selection Seven:More about activity 3.8 Selection Eight:A comparison 3.9 Selection Nine:Articles about living things 3.10 Selection Ten:How to make the claim 3.11 Selection Eleven:Stand concernd Chapter 4 Our English learners' problems 4.1 Problems with the infinitive 4.2 Other grammatical problems 4.3 Misuse of words 4.4 Redundancy and wordiness 4.5 Chinglish 4.6 Problems at higher levels Chapter 5 Be a critical thinker 5.1 Understand ourselves 5.2 Be critical to information 5.3 The arbitrary language 5.4 The uses of language 5.5 The uses of language(continued) 5.6 Propaganda 5.7 How to go wrong Chapter 6 …… Part Two THE READER