| Chapter One Introduction | 第1-11页 |
| ·A general description of my study | 第8页 |
| ·The need of the study | 第8-10页 |
| ·The theoretical need | 第8-9页 |
| ·The practical need | 第9-10页 |
| ·The overall structure of the thesis and the main content of each chapter | 第10-11页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第11-23页 |
| ·Genre and Genre analysis | 第11-18页 |
| ·Defenition of Genre | 第11-13页 |
| ·The Realization of Genre | 第13-15页 |
| ·Contextual Configuration (CC) Model | 第13-15页 |
| ·Schematic Structure Model | 第15页 |
| ·Comparison between the two models | 第15页 |
| ·Genre analysis | 第15-18页 |
| ·Traditional discourse analysis and its weaknesses | 第15-16页 |
| ·Four levels of Genre analysis | 第16-18页 |
| ·Reflections of Genre analysis to the analysis of the application letter | 第18页 |
| ·Text type & Rhetorical Structure analysis | 第18-20页 |
| ·A review of discourse analysis on application letter | 第20-23页 |
| ·What is the letter of application | 第20页 |
| ·Previous studies on the basic requirements for a good application letter | 第20-22页 |
| ·Deficiencies in the study of application letter | 第22-23页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Framework of the Study | 第23-31页 |
| ·Systemic-Functional theory | 第23-24页 |
| ·Layers of this study | 第24-31页 |
| ·Generic structure potential | 第24-26页 |
| ·Rhetorical structure | 第26-27页 |
| ·Lexico-grammatical patterns | 第27-31页 |
| ·Transitivity system | 第27-28页 |
| ·Mood and Modality system | 第28-29页 |
| ·Theme and Rheme system | 第29-31页 |
| Chapter Four Language Features of Application Letter | 第31-47页 |
| ·A Generic structure description | 第31-39页 |
| ·Generic structure description 1 | 第35-36页 |
| ·Generic structure description 2 | 第36-37页 |
| ·Generic structure description 3 | 第37-39页 |
| ·A rhetorical structure description | 第39-41页 |
| ·A lexico-grammatical pattern | 第41-47页 |
| ·Transitivity description | 第41-43页 |
| ·Mood and Modality description | 第43-45页 |
| ·Theme and Rheme description | 第45-47页 |
| Chapter Five Findings and Conclusion | 第47-50页 |
| ·Summary of research findings | 第47-49页 |
| ·From the perspective of generic structure | 第47-48页 |
| ·From the perspective of rhetorical structure | 第48页 |
| ·From the perspective of lexico-grammatical structure | 第48-49页 |
| ·Limitations and suggestions for future research | 第49-50页 |
| References | 第50-53页 |
| Appendices | 第53-71页 |
| Appendix A: 20 Example Letters | 第53-71页 |
