This is an advanced guide book. It does not start from scratch. It does not assume that you know nothing about writing. On the contrary，it presumes that， although you probably still make some mechanicalerrors， you already know most of the so-called "basics". It presumes that you can write more or less clear， correct sentences and coherent paragraphs most of the time. It presumes that you can write 400-wordessays well enough if you are given enough time with the help of dictionaries. Because it makes these assumptions， it does not start from the beginning， but it hopes that you can write a 400-word essay with nothing to refer to within 45 minutes. It hopes that you can get a high score for the writing part in TEM 8. This book is written according to The Syllabus for TEM 8. It is divided into five chapters.Chapter I lists material that you may need in writing. Chapter II provides you with English idioms and proverbs， Chinese idioms with English version and news words. Chapter III concerns itself with figures of speech so that you can write not only correct sentences but also forceful ones.Chapter IV presents sentence patterns for well-organized essays. And Finally， Chapter V demonstrates samples for TEM 8 writing. Before you read the book， please get acquainted with The TEM 8 Composition Marking Scheme so that you will know where you shouldhead.
