Chapter Ⅰ Introduction
Part Ⅰ Purposes and difficulties of thesis writing
Part Ⅱ Proper style of a thesis
Part Ⅲ Structure of a thesis
Part Ⅳ How to write a good title
Part Ⅴ Sample reading
Chapter Ⅱ Writing Abstracts
Part Ⅰ Essential elements of an abstract and their respective functions
Part Ⅱ Abstract, summary and executive summary
Part Ⅲ Varieties of abstracts
Part Ⅳ Rules of different abstracts
Part Ⅴ Frequently used structures
Part Ⅵ Abstract writing
Review Exercise Ⅰ
Key to Review Exercise Ⅰ
Chapter Ⅲ Writing Acknowledgments
Part Ⅰ Proper style of acknowledgments and who should be thanked
Part Ⅱ Useful sentence pattems to write acknowledgments
Chapter Ⅳ Writing Introduction
Part Ⅰ Stages of introduction
Part Ⅱ Stage 1: Outline of the background
Part Ⅲ Stage 2: Review of literature or review of researches done
Part Ⅳ Stage 3: Problems which need further study
Part Ⅴ Stage 4: Stating the purpose of the research
Part Ⅵ Stage 5: Implication or justification of the research
Part Ⅶ Stage 6: Organization of the thesis
Review Exercise Ⅱ
Key to Review Exercise Ⅱ
Chapter Ⅴ Describing Procedures
Part Ⅰ Procedure description
Part Ⅱ Commenting on tables and charts
Chapter Ⅵ Results and Discussions
Part Ⅰ Get familiar with sentence structures in results description and discussions
Part Ⅱ Translation exercise
Chapter Ⅶ Coming to a Conclusion
Part Ⅰ Elements of a conclusion
Part Ⅱ How to compose a conclusion
Review Exercise Ⅲ
Key to Review Exercise III
Chapter Ⅷ Compiling a Bibliography
Part Ⅰ General steps and rules of bibliography
Part Ⅱ Introduction to Chicago style
Part Ⅲ Specific rules about notes-bibliography system
Part Ⅳ Author-date system: the basic form of citation
APPENDIXES
APPENDIX Ⅰ Sample thesis for abstract writing
APPENDIX Ⅱ Titles, key words and abstracts to be improved
APPENDIX Ⅲ Titles and their translation: specifically designedfor Chinese students
APPENDIX Ⅳ APA format and MLA fomat