本书整体分为三大模块：基础写作篇、布局成章篇和论文终稿篇。全书讲解翔实，练习丰富，为教师实现混合式教学提供便利，为学生实现自主学习和团队学习提供条件，为教师和学生提供了大量课上和课下都可用的资料。
本书可供学术刚刚起步的研究生以及为自己学术生涯的第一篇英语论文写作的莘莘学子阅读、参考。

Part A Preliminaries
Chapter 1 Basics of Scientific Writing
1.1 Choice of words
1.2 Functions of types of phrases
1.3 Functions of types of sentences
1.4 Effective sentences
1.5 Some recommended English dictionaries
Exercises
Chapter 2 Structure and Styles
2.1 Introductory paragraph
2.2 Body paragraphs
2.3 Concluding paragraph
2.4 Features of an effective paragraph
2.5 Styles
Exercises
Chapter 3 Summary, Paraphrase and Plagiarism
3.1 Plagiarism
3.2 Quotations
3.3 Paraphrase
3.4 Summary
Exercises
Part B Preparations
Chapter 4 Writing Process
4.1 Brainstorming and planning
4.2 Drafting
4.3 Revising and editing
Exercises
Chapter 5 Essay Development I
5.1 Definition
5.2 Illustration
5.3 Cause-effect
Exercises
Chapter 6 Essay Development II
6.1 Classification
6.2 Comparison and contrast
6.3 Argument
Exercises
Part C Text
Chapter 7 Title, Abstract and Introduction
7.1 Title
7.2 Abstract
7.3 How to write an abstract
7.4 Introduction
Exercises
Chapter 8 Literature Review and Methods
8.1 Purpose of the literature review
8.2 Common rules in the literature review
8.3 Purpose of methods
8.4 Materials and methods
8.5 Useful expressions in the methods
8.6 Language features in the methods
Exercises
Chapter 9 Results and Discussion
9.1 Results
9.2 Discussion
9.3 Tables and graphs
Exercises
Chapter 10 Other Matters and Points for Attention
10.1 Acknowledgements
10.2 Reference styles
10.3 Tense and voice
10.4 Abbreviations
Final task
Appendix
Appendix I Common differences between British and American English
Appendix II Chinese learners' common errors in spelling English
Appendix III Chinese learners' common errors in English grammar
Appendix IV Key to exercises
Bibliography