由丁往道等編著的《英語寫作手冊》旨在為非英
語專業的學生提供一些實用的英文寫作技巧。全書分
十章，對文體格式，遣詞造句、整篇作文，論文和書
信，簡歷等的寫作都做了詳盡的闡述。它既用中文講
解，又保留了英語例句和範文，從而會使讀者受益匪
淺；這樣的寫作訓練是全面的訓練，不僅有助於提高
語言水平，還有助於提高觀察分析、邏輯思考的能力
，有助於培養嚴謹的工作作風，這無疑對我國的英語
教學工作是一大推進。

Part One Manuscript Form
Ⅰ. Arrangement
Ⅱ. Capitalization
Ⅲ. Word Division
Ⅳ. Punctuation
Ⅴ. Handwriting
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
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
Part Four The Paragraph
Ⅰ. Criteria of an Effective Paragraph
1. Unity
2. Coherence
3. Transition
Ⅱ. Steps in Writing a Paragraph
Ⅲ. Ways of Developing Paragraphs
1. Development by Time
2. Development by Process
3. Development by Space
4. Development by Example or Generalization