| List of Figures and Tables | 第1-9页 |
| Abstract | 第9-12页 |
| 摘要 | 第12-14页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第14-18页 |
| ·Background of the Study | 第14-15页 |
| ·Purpose and Significance of the Present Study | 第15-16页 |
| ·Methodology and Data Collection | 第16-17页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第17-18页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第18-27页 |
| ·Definitions of the Text Pattern | 第18-20页 |
| ·A Brief Survey of Studies on Text Patterns at Home and Abroad | 第20-23页 |
| ·Text Pattern Studies Abroad | 第20-21页 |
| ·Text Pattern Studies at Home | 第21-23页 |
| ·Public Speaking Studies at Home and Abroad | 第23-26页 |
| ·Public Speaking Studies in the West | 第23-24页 |
| ·English Public Speaking Contests Today in China | 第24-26页 |
| ·A Summary | 第26-27页 |
| Chapter 3 Theoretical Framework | 第27-43页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction to Systemic-Functional Grammar: a Grammar of Text Analysis and Text Generation | 第27-28页 |
| ·The Theory of Clause Relation | 第28-30页 |
| ·The Definition of Clause Relation | 第28-29页 |
| ·Categories of Clause Relation | 第29-30页 |
| ·Clause Relations and Text Patterns | 第30-42页 |
| ·Culturally Popular Patterns of Organization | 第31-32页 |
| ·Three Common Pattern of Text Organization | 第32-42页 |
| ·The Problem-Solution Pattern | 第32-36页 |
| ·The Hypothetical-Real Pattern | 第36-39页 |
| ·General-Particular Pattern | 第39-42页 |
| ·A Summary | 第42-43页 |
| Chapter 4 A Contrastive Analysis of Text Patterns between American and Chinese College Students’English Public Speeches | 第43-65页 |
| ·A Contrastive Analysis of the Three Text Patterns Employed in English Contest Speeches | 第43-48页 |
| ·The Data Analysis | 第43-47页 |
| ·The Result Analysis | 第47-48页 |
| ·A Contrastive Analysis of Rhetoric Strategies used to Realize the Problem-solution Pattern | 第48-63页 |
| ·Type of Problem Discussing | 第48-54页 |
| ·The Data Analysis | 第48-54页 |
| ·The Result Analysis | 第54页 |
| ·Type of Reasoning Methods Used in Argument | 第54-61页 |
| ·The Data Analysis | 第54-60页 |
| ·The Result Analysis | 第60-61页 |
| ·Type of Solution | 第61-63页 |
| ·The Data Analysis | 第61-63页 |
| ·The Result Analysis | 第63页 |
| ·A Summary | 第63-65页 |
| Chapter 5 Implications for College English Writing Teaching | 第65-71页 |
| ·The Necessity of Learning English Text Patterns | 第65-66页 |
| ·Raising Students’Awareness of Culture and Thought Pattern Differences | 第66-67页 |
| ·Teaching College English Writing from a Text-pattern Perspective | 第67-71页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusion | 第71-74页 |
| ·A summary | 第71-72页 |
| ·Limitations of the Present Study | 第72-73页 |
| ·Insights for Future Researches | 第73-74页 |
| Bibliography | 第74-80页 |
| Appendices | 第80-84页 |
| Appendix1. Sample Speeches of Chinese College Students | 第80-82页 |
| Appendix2. Sample Speeches of American College Students | 第82-84页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第84-85页 |
| 攻读硕士学位期间发表论文目录 | 第85页 |
