Unit 1 Business and Econnomics

  Writing Skill Development

    Basic Structure of an Argumentative Essay

  Reading for Ideas

    Text A Drain or Gain?

    Text B Rent or Buy,a Matter of Lifestyle

    Text C Comeback Kid--America’S Economy Is Once Again Reinventing Itself

  Unit Summary

Unit 2 Engineering

  Writing Skill Development

    Supporting Evidence and Effective Argumentation(1)

    Use of Reliable Sources(statistics，facts，quotation，

    illustrative incidents，etc．)

  Reading for Ideas

    Text A Altering the Forces of Nature：Genetic Engineering on Animals

    Text B Genetically Modified Foods：A Solution to World Hunger or Potential Health Threat?

    Text C Genetic Engineering and Cloning

  Unit Summary

Unit 3 Sinence

  Writing Skill Development

    Supporting Evidence and Effective Argumentation(2)

    Cause and Effect

  Reading for Ideas

    Text A Can Animals and Plants Adapt to Global Warming?

    Text C Stem Cell Research—Why Is It Regarded as a rnlreat?

  Unit Summary

Unit 4 Information Technology

  Writing Skill Development

    Supporting Evidence and Effective Argumentation f31

    Comparison and Contrast

Reading for Ideas

  Text A iPads and Kindles Are Better for the Environmenl

    Than Books

  Text B  Stop Blaming the Internet

  Text C We Should Not Permit Internet CensorshilD

Unit Summary

Unit 5 Philosophy

  Writing Skill Development

    Supporting Evidence and Effective Argumentation r41

    Deduction and Induction

  Reading for Ideas

    Text A Argument,Truth and the Social Side of Reasoning

    Text B Who Needs the Humanities?

    Text C Experiments in Philosophy

  Unit Summary

Unit 6 Social Science

  Writing Skill Development

    Supporting Evidence and Effective Argumentation r51

    Clear Flow ofReasoning and Avoidance ofFaltse Aments

  Reading for Ideas

    Text A The Many Career Opportunities for Recipients of

    Degrees iin Mathematics

    Text B Hidden Tigers：Why Do Chinese Children Do So

    Well at School?

    Text C WhyIWant aWife

  Unit Summary

Unit 7 Life Science/Health

  Writing Skill Development

    The Whole Essay (1)

  Reading for Ideas

    Text A A Scientist: "I Am the Enemy"

    Text B An Argument in Support of Euthanasia or Physician- Assisted Suicide

    Text C The Case Against Physician-Assisted Suicide: For the Right to End-of-Life Care

  Unit Summary

Unit 8 Environment

  Writing Skill Development

    The Whole Essay (2)

      Main Issue + Refutation + Support

      Main Issue + Support + Refutation

  Reading for Ideas

    Text A The Food Miles Mistake

    Text B Global Warming: Man-Made or Natural?

    Text C The Environmental Argument for Reducing

      Immigration to the United States

  Unit Summary

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