《英语散文：鉴赏与写作》的另一目标是通过培养学生的2C（Critical & Creative）能力，激发其亲手尝试英语散文创作的兴趣。每课之后的“写作指南”结合本篇课文的写作特点、篇章结构、行文风格、创作技巧等，为学生梳理、总结英语散文创作的要点，然后再通过每课最后设计的开放或半开放式的写作任务，让学生有机会尝试英语散文的创作，并在这样的尝试中感受散文之美、追求散文之美、创造散文之美。
《英语散文：鉴赏与写作》编者长期担纲大学本科学生的文学课教学，对文学鉴赏教学有着自己独到的见解和体会。
《英语散文：鉴赏与写作》在编者所在学校面向选修文学类通识课程的非英语专业学生试用，受到学生的广泛好评。有同学反映，英语散文鉴赏课让他们领略到了英语原汁原味的音韵美、修辞美和意境美，英语不再作为获取信息的工具而学得那么功利、无趣，而是作为审美的对象而学得那么感性、生动；也有学生反映，通过大学英语四级或六级考试之后，自己的英语学习似乎进入了一个进步迟缓、成效不彰的漫长时期，即人们常说的“高原现象”，英语散文鉴赏课课时虽少，但内容丰富，涉及词汇、句法、修辞、语篇，以及阅读、写作等方方面面的知识和技能，学习强度很大，所传授的学习方法也非常独特，能帮助学习者有效地克服英语学习的“高原现象”，对进一步提高自己的英语能力和人文素养大有裨益。
- 前辅文
- Unit One “On Doors” by Christopher Darlington Morley
- Literary Device: Symbol（象征）
- Composition Guide: Achieving Coherence
- Further Reading: “A Letter to Father Time (New Year’s Eve)” by Christopher Darlington Morley
- Unit Two “On Going a Journey” by William Hazlitt
- Literary Device: Rhetorical Question（修辞性问句）
- Composition Guide: Position Defending
- Further Reading: “Going Out for a Walk” by Max Beerbohm
- Unit Three “A Piece of Chalk” by G. K. Chesterton
- Literary Device: Hyperbole / Exaggeration（夸张）
- Composition Guide: Narrating and Reflecting
- Further Reading: “On Running After One’s Hat” by G. K. Chesterton
- Unit Four “A Relic” by Max Beerbohm
- Literary Device: Allusion（引喻）
- Composition Guide: Narrative Point of View
- Further Reading: “They All Just Went Away” by Joyce Carol Oates
- Unit Five “On Lying Awake at Night” by Stewart Edward White
- Literary Device: Personification（拟人）
- Composition Guide: Description
- Further Reading: “Niagara Falls” by Rupert Brooke
- Unit Six “Rude Am I in My Speech” by Caryl Phillips
- Literary Devices: Metaphor and Simile（隐喻与明喻）
- Composition Guide: Compare and Contrast
- Further Reading: “Do He Have Your Number, Mr. Jeffrey?” by Gayle Pemberton
- Unit Seven “About Face” by Joseph Epstein
- Literary Device: Transferred Epithet（移就）
- Composition Guide: Paragraph Development
- Further Reading: “My Face” by Robert Benchley
- Unit Eight “La Paz” by Jan Morris
- Literary Device: Rhyme（押韵）
- Composition Guide: Travel Essay
- Further Reading: “Pamplona in July” by Ernest Hemingway
- Unit Nine “Grieving” by Meenakshi Gigi Durham
- Literary Device: Humor（幽默）
- Composition Guide: Free Association
- Further Reading: “Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here?” by Mark Edmundson
- Unit Ten “Trivia” by Logan Pearsall Smith
- Literary Device: Epiphany（顿悟）
- Composition Guide: Ironic Turn of Meaning
- Further Reading: “The Note-Books of Samuel Butler” by Samuel Butler
- Unit Eleven “Thomas Hobbes” by Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper
- Literary Devices: Metonymy and Synecdoche（换喻与提喻）
- Composition Guide: Biographical Essay
- Further Reading: “William James” by John Jay Chapman
- Unit Twelve “Disaster Always Waits on Early Wit” by Samuel Johnson
- Literary Device: Parallelism（排比）
- Composition Guide: Semantic or Concept Map
- Further Reading: “Domestick greatness unattainable” by Samuel Johnson
- Appendix
