提纲作文是要求考生根据所给出的作文题目和提纲(一般为中文提纲)进行写作。中文提纲大多是以三个单句的形式出现的。写提纲作文，首先要做的就是审题，仔细分析题目中所列举的提纲。审完题后应该根据提纲拟出三个英文的主题句，然后在这些主题句的基础上扩展成文。在扩展的过程中一定要做到条理清楚，开门见山。
[例]Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic Good Health according to the following outline. Your composition is less than 120 words. Remember that the contents of the outline should all be included in your composition.
Outline:
1健康的重要性
2保持健康的方法
3我的做法
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Good Health
Good health is very important to everyone. With good health, we can study, serve our country, or do anything we like. Without good health, everybody knows that we will fail to do things. We may stay in hospital and become a burden of our family.
In my opinion, there are two ways for us to keep fit. First, we must eat a balanced diet. That is to say, we must eat not only eggs, fish and meat, but also some vegetables and fruit everyday. Besides eating properly, drinking clean water is also important. Never get addicted to drinking the soft drink.Second, exercising is a vital part of our daily life. We can do some running in the morning and play football in the afternoon.
As a university student, I pay much attention to physical exercises. I do some swimming in summer and some skating in winter. I often play badminton and tennis. I am also careful with my diet. In a way, keeping healthy is not very hard if you just take it seriously.
文章开门见山就点出了主题：Good health is very important to everyone。然后作者很巧妙地用了with 和without这两个介词从正反两个方面举出了具体的事例来支持自己的观点。第二段的开头句紧扣提纲，概括地提出保持健康有两种方法，并且通过first, second这样的指示词,使所列举的事实条理化。最后一段告诉读者自己的做法，也紧扣了提纲。
关键词作文
关键词作文是根据作文题目以及所给出的关键词写短文。关键词的数目由几个到十几个不等。写这种题型的作文，要特别注意关键词的作用。关键词是短文内容发展的“路标”，在作文思路和写作内容上起着决定作用。因此，写出的文章要把所给的这些关键词都用上，可以一句中用上几个词，也可以几句中用上一个词，只要能做到恰到好处即可。而且，要学会根据所给关键词的语义群分段。如果所给的关键词可以分为三组，那么，短文就可以写成三段。如果给出的关键词是两组，短文就可以写为两段。再者，要把给出的关键词用在刀刃上，即各段的主题句以及结尾的主题句都应该有关键词。
[例]Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a passage on The Advantages of Travel based on the words and phrases given: advantages widen our knowledge, make friends, knowledge or geography, beautiful scenery, different lifestyle, customs and cultures, various foods, practice a foreign language, worth spending the time.
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The Advantages of Travel
Whenever a college student is asked “What are you going to do this summer vacation?”The most probable answer might be “I am going to have a trip.” It seems that college students are fond of traveling very much. Why?Because travel has numerous advantages.
First of all, travel can widen our knowledge of geography,the knowledge of different customs, cultures and lifestyles of different places and countries. Secondly, we can make friends and practice a foreign language through traveling. Finally, travel is the best way of spending time. We can enjoy eating various local foods and seeing beautiful scenery.
In a word, we can benefit from travel in more than one way. It is worth spending the time.
作者在第一段中就用上了关键词travel和advantage，并很巧妙地利用Because travel has numerous advantages这样的承上启下的句子来引出下文关于旅游的种种好处的介绍。最后又把关键词用在了文章的结尾处，强化了主题，不失为画龙点睛之笔。
摘自：《大学英语四级考试写作专项突破》
