| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract(English) | 第4-7页 |
| Abstract(Chinese) | 第7-10页 |
| A List of Tables | 第10-11页 |
| Abbreviations | 第11-12页 |
| Contents | 第12-15页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第15-21页 |
| ·Importance of learning and teaching writing | 第15-19页 |
| ·Importance of learning writing | 第15-17页 |
| ·Importance of teaching writing | 第17-19页 |
| ·The purpose of the study | 第19-20页 |
| ·Current studies of writing in China | 第19-20页 |
| ·The purpose of the study | 第20页 |
| ·The holistic framework of the present thesis | 第20-21页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第21-43页 |
| ·A brief history of EFL writing | 第21-22页 |
| ·Current approaches to the teaching of EFL writing | 第22-41页 |
| ·Product approach | 第22-24页 |
| ·Process approach | 第24-29页 |
| ·Prewriting stage | 第24-27页 |
| ·Writing stage | 第27页 |
| ·Rewriting stage | 第27页 |
| ·Editing and reviewing | 第27-29页 |
| ·Genre approach | 第29-31页 |
| ·Task-based approach | 第31-34页 |
| ·Length approach | 第34-41页 |
| ·A comparison between traditional method of writing teaching and length approach | 第35-36页 |
| ·The relationship between length approach and ESL writing theory | 第36-39页 |
| ·Some other characteristics of length approach | 第39-41页 |
| ·Summary:the characteristics of each period | 第41-43页 |
| Chapter Three Research Design and Experiment | 第43-54页 |
| ·Research question and hypotheses | 第43页 |
| ·Subjects and site selection | 第43-44页 |
| ·Instrumentation | 第44-47页 |
| ·Teaching materials | 第44-45页 |
| ·The duration of the research | 第45页 |
| ·Instruments | 第45-46页 |
| ·The scoring criteria of the pre-and post-tests | 第46-47页 |
| ·The procedures of the main experiment | 第47-54页 |
| ·Determining the variables related to the experiment | 第47-48页 |
| ·The writing tasks and time arrangement | 第48页 |
| ·The treatment of the treatment group and contrast group | 第48-54页 |
| Chapter Four Data Presentation and Interpretation | 第54-64页 |
| ·Quantitative data collection | 第54页 |
| ·Data processing | 第54页 |
| ·The analysis of the collected data | 第54-61页 |
| ·The result of the pre-test and interpretation | 第54-55页 |
| ·The result of the post-test and interpretation | 第55-56页 |
| ·A comparison of the two groups before and after the experiment | 第56-57页 |
| ·The result of the error number analysis and interpretation | 第57-61页 |
| ·Research analysis and discussion | 第61-64页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion and Implications | 第64-68页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第64-65页 |
| ·Implications | 第65-66页 |
| ·The Limitations | 第66-68页 |
| Bibliography | 第68-75页 |
| Appendixes | 第75-79页 |
| Declarations | 第79-80页 |
| 详细摘要 | 第80-90页 |
