| Acknowledgements | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第6-10页 |
| 1．1 Background of the study | 第6-8页 |
| 1．2 Layout of the thesis | 第8-10页 |
| Chapter 2 Overview of Theories on Writing | 第10-15页 |
| 2．1 The nature of writing | 第10页 |
| 2．2 The approaches to writing | 第10-13页 |
| 2．2．1 Writing as a cognitive activity | 第11-12页 |
| 2．2．2 Writing as a social and cultural activity | 第12-13页 |
| 2．2．2．1 Discourse community and genre approach | 第12页 |
| 2．2．2．2 Contrastive rhetoric | 第12-13页 |
| 2．3 The interface of L1 writing and L2 writing, and language transfer | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter 3 Contrastive Rhetoric | 第15-22页 |
| 3．1 Audience awareness | 第15-16页 |
| 3．2 Overview of research approaches | 第16-17页 |
| 3．3 The value of contrastive rhetoric for analyzing written language: a TESOL perspective | 第17-18页 |
| 3．4 Research on contrastive rhetoric between Chinese and English written text | 第18-22页 |
| 3．4．1 Chinese vs． English | 第19-22页 |
| Chapter 4 An Experimental Study | 第22-62页 |
| 4．1 Research questions | 第22页 |
| 4．2 Research design | 第22-29页 |
| 4．2．1 Subjects | 第22-25页 |
| 4．2．2 Data | 第25-27页 |
| 4．2．2．1 Data for quantitative analysis | 第25-26页 |
| 4．2．2．2 Data for qualitative analysis | 第26-27页 |
| 4．2．3 Method of analysis | 第27-29页 |
| 4．2．3．1 Discourse analysis for the quantitative data | 第27-28页 |
| 4．2．3．1．1 Focus of the analysis | 第28页 |
| 4．2．3．1．2 Coding | 第28页 |
| 4．2．3．2 Statistical analysis for the quantitative data and the qualitative data | 第28-29页 |
| 4．3 Results | 第29-53页 |
| 4．3．1 Description of the quantitative results | 第29-32页 |
| 4．3．1．1 Overall description of the location of the main idea | 第29-30页 |
| 4．3．1．2 Cross-language comparison of the location of the main idea Between the CCCEs and the CECEs | 第30页 |
| 4．3．1．3 Cross-language comparison of the location of the main idea Between the CCREs and the ECREs | 第30-31页 |
| 4．3．1．4 Cross-genre comparison of the location of the main idea in the CCCEs and the CCREs | 第31-32页 |
| 4．3．2 Description of the qualitative results | 第32-53页 |
| 4．3．2．1 Students' knowledge about Chinese discourse organization | 第33-36页 |
| 4．3．2．2 Students' knowledge about English discourse organization | 第36-39页 |
| 4．3．2．3 Students' attitudes towards English discourse organization | 第39-41页 |
| 4．3．2．4 Students' awareness of their consideration of the discourse organization | 第41-42页 |
| 4．3．2．5 Students' awareness of language transfer | 第42-45页 |
| 4．3．2．6 The most effective way of making consultation | 第45-47页 |
| 4．3．2．7 The most common way of giving acceptance | 第47-48页 |
| 4．3．2．8 The most appropriate way of making refusal | 第48-50页 |
| 4．3．2．9 Students' audience awareness (1) | 第50-52页 |
| 4．3．2．10 Students' audience awareness (2) | 第52-53页 |
| 4．4 Discussion | 第53-62页 |
| 4．4．1 Possible locations for the main idea in Chinese and English discourse | 第53-54页 |
| 4．4．2 Similarities and differences in the main idea location between Native Chinese people's and native English people's educational reply emails/e-messages | 第54-55页 |
| 4．4．2．1 Similarities in the main idea location and the preference | 第54-55页 |
| 4．4．2．2 Differences in the main idea location | 第55页 |
| 4．4．3 Similarities and Differences in the main idea location between native Chinese people's L1 and L2 consulting emails/e-messages | 第55-58页 |
| 4．4．3．1 Similarities in the main idea location and the preference | 第55-57页 |
| 4．4．3．2 Differences in the main idea location and English-to-Chinese transfer | 第57-58页 |
| 4．4．4 Differences in the main idea location between native Chinese people's L1 educational consulting emails/e-messages and L1 educational reply emails/e-messages | 第58-60页 |
| 4．4．5 Similarities in the preference for the deductive and inductive organizational pattern between Chinese and English discourse | 第60页 |
| 4．4．6 Importance of teaching English discourse structure | 第60-61页 |
| 4．4．7 Influence from experience with western culture on rhetoric style | 第61页 |
| 4．4．8 Conclusion | 第61-62页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusions | 第62-66页 |
| 5．1 Summary | 第62-63页 |
| 5．2 Pedagogical implications | 第63-65页 |
| 5．3 Limitations of this study and suggestions for future researches | 第65-66页 |
| Bibliography | 第66-72页 |
| Appendix 1-3 | 第72-78页 |
