College English writing.ppt

English Writing Part one: Manuscript Form Ⅰ. Arrangement 1. To make your handwriting easy to read. 2. Indent the first line of every paragraph, leaving a space of about four or five letters. 3. Don’t begin a line with a punctuation( a comma, a period, a semicolon, a colon, a question mark, exclamation mark). 4. Don’t end a line with the first half of a pair of brackets, quotation marks, or parentheses. 5. The hyphen that indicates a divided word is put at the end, not at the beginning, of a line. 6. Write the title in the middle of the first line. A. In a title, all the words except conjunctions, prepositions and articles should be capitalized. B. Con, pre and art should also be capitalized if they are the first or last words of a title. C. If the title is a sentence, no punctuation mark except a question mark is used at its end. E.g. My First Visit to the Palace Museum Rules to Abide By What Can the Artist Do in the World of Today? What reform Means to China The English-Speaking people in Quebec Think of five titles and write them in the proper form. Ⅱ. Word Division While writing, you may sometimes find that there is not enough room to write a whole word in at the end of a line. In this case, you have to decide whether to divide the word or to write it on the next line. The general principle is to divide a word according to its syllables: 1. One-syllable words can not be divided, e.g. through, march, brain, pushed. 2. Don’t write one letter of a word at the end or at the beginning of a line, even if that one letter makes up a syllable, such as a.lone, trick.y. 3. Don’t put a two-letter syllable at the beginning of a line, like hat.ed, cab.in. 4. Avoid separating proper names of people or places, like Chi.na, Aus.ten. 5. Divide hyphenated words only at the hyphen: father-in-law, empty-handed. 6. Don’t divide words in way that may mislead the reader: re.ally. 7. Don’t divide the last word on a page. Instead, write the whole word on the next page. 8. Divide w