| ABSTRACT | 第3-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-10页 |
| Chapter One: Introduction | 第10-16页 |
| 1.1 Background of the Study | 第10-12页 |
| 1.2 Significance of the Study | 第12-13页 |
| 1.3 Objectives of the Study | 第13-14页 |
| 1.4 Organization of the Thesis | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter Two: Literature Review | 第16-30页 |
| 2.1 The Cohesion Theory | 第16-20页 |
| 2.1.1 Cohesion and Cohesive Devices | 第16-18页 |
| 2.1.2 Previous Studies on the Cohesion Theory | 第18-20页 |
| 2.2 Discourse Patterns and Discourse-organizing Words | 第20-28页 |
| 2.2.1 Common Discourse Patterns and Their Discourse-organizing Words | 第20-23页 |
| 2.2.2 The Cause-effect Pattern and Its Discourse-organizing Words | 第23-25页 |
| 2.2.3 Previous Studies on Discourse Patterns and Discourse-organizingWords | 第25-28页 |
| 2.3 Comments on Previous Studies | 第28-30页 |
| Chapter Three: Methodology | 第30-42页 |
| 3.1 Research Questions | 第30页 |
| 3.2 The Corpora of the Study | 第30-33页 |
| 3.2.1 The Observed Corpus | 第30-31页 |
| 3.2.2 The Reference Corpus | 第31-33页 |
| 3.3 Research Procedures | 第33-42页 |
| 3.3.1 Data Coding and Tagging | 第33-34页 |
| 3.3.2 Searching for Cause-effect Discourse-organizing Words | 第34-38页 |
| 3.3.3 Questionnaires and Interviews | 第38-42页 |
| Chapter Four: Results and Discussion | 第42-72页 |
| 4.1 Analysis of the Use of Cause-effect Discourse-organizing Words in EnglishMajors’Argumentative Writing | 第42-50页 |
| 4.1.1 The General Characteristics of the Use of Cause-effectDiscourse-organizing Words | 第42-45页 |
| 4.1.2 Frequency of Cause-effect Discourse-organizing Words in CSC andLOCNESS | 第45-47页 |
| 4.1.3 The Use of Cause-effect Discourse-organizing Phrases | 第47-50页 |
| 4.2 Comparative Analysis of the Use of Cause-effect Discourse-organizing Wordsbetween the Corpora of CSC and LOCNESS | 第50-63页 |
| 4.2.1 Overused, Underused, and Noused Cause-effect Discourse-organizingWords in CSC | 第51-56页 |
| 4.2.2 The Use of Cause-effect Discourse-organizing Words in theCause-effect Pattern | 第56-63页 |
| 4.3 Analysis of the Results of the Questionnaires and Interviews | 第63-72页 |
| 4.3.1 English Majors’ Knowledge of Cause-effect Discourse-organizingWords | 第64-65页 |
| 4.3.2 English Majors’ Awareness of Cause-effect Discourse-organizingWords | 第65-67页 |
| 4.3.3 English Majors’Attitudes towards Argumentative Writing Teaching | 第67-69页 |
| 4.3.4 Main Factors Influencing the Use of Cause-effect Discourse-organizingWords in English Majors’Argumentative Writing | 第69-72页 |
| Chapter Five: Conclusion | 第72-78页 |
| 5.1 Major Findings | 第72-73页 |
| 5.2 Implications of the Study | 第73-75页 |
| 5.3 Limitations of the Study | 第75页 |
| 5.4 Suggestions for Future Studies | 第75-78页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第78-84页 |
| APPENDIX | 第84-90页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第90-92页 |
| PUBLISHED PAPERS | 第92页 |
