| 摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| Abbreviations | 第6-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第9-12页 |
| ·Research background | 第9页 |
| ·Significance of the study | 第9-11页 |
| ·Organization of the study | 第11-12页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第12-34页 |
| ·Definitions of sentence | 第12-13页 |
| ·Variety of sentence | 第13-16页 |
| ·Complexity of sentence | 第16-24页 |
| ·Cohesion | 第24-25页 |
| ·Previous studies on syntactic features | 第25-34页 |
| Chapter Three Research Methodology | 第34-37页 |
| ·Research questions | 第34页 |
| ·Research procedure | 第34-37页 |
| ·Subjects and materials | 第34-36页 |
| ·Compositions from the corpus | 第34-35页 |
| ·Compositions from Xinjiang University | 第35-36页 |
| ·Data Analysis | 第36-37页 |
| Chapter Four Results an Discussions | 第37-65页 |
| ·Syntactic features by sophomores of English majors in Xinjiang University | 第37-43页 |
| ·Features of syntactic complexity by Group Two | 第37-40页 |
| ·Features of syntactic variety by Group Two | 第40-42页 |
| ·Features of conjunctions by Group Two | 第42-43页 |
| ·Results and discussions about differences between the two groups in syntactic features | 第43-63页 |
| ·Comparisons of syntactic complexity between two groups | 第43-57页 |
| ·Comparisons of syntactic variety between two group | 第57-61页 |
| ·Comparisons of conjunctions between two groups | 第61-63页 |
| ·Summary | 第63-65页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusions | 第65-70页 |
| ·Major findings | 第65-66页 |
| ·Implications | 第66-68页 |
| ·Implications for teaching | 第66-67页 |
| ·Implications for learning | 第67-68页 |
| ·Limitations of the Study | 第68-70页 |
| Bibliography | 第70-74页 |
| Appendix | 第74-80页 |
| 发表论文（清单） | 第80-81页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第81页 |
