| Introduction | 第1-14页 |
| Chapter I Literature Review | 第14-23页 |
| ·The Necessity for Studying Contrastive Rhetoric in Writing | 第14-20页 |
| ·Writing as a Social and Cultural Phenomenon | 第14-17页 |
| ·Relationship between Language, Culture and Thought | 第17-20页 |
| ·Transfer Theory | 第20-23页 |
| ·Linguistic Transfer | 第21-22页 |
| ·Cultural Transfer | 第22-23页 |
| Chapter II The Chinese and English Thought Patterns and Expository Paragraph Rhetorical Structures | 第23-43页 |
| ·Cultural Thought Patterns of the Chinese and English-Speakers | 第23-32页 |
| ·The Causes for the Differences in Ways of Thinking | 第23-25页 |
| ·Cultural Thought Patterns of Easterners and Westerners | 第25-30页 |
| ·Synthesis vs. Analysis | 第25-27页 |
| ·Intuition vs. Logic | 第27-29页 |
| ·Image vs. Abstraction | 第29-30页 |
| ·Cultural Thought Patterns at Discourse Level | 第30-32页 |
| ·Chinese and English Paragraph Rhetorical Structures Related to Thought Patterns | 第32-43页 |
| ·Nature of Paragraph | 第32-34页 |
| ·Chinese Paragraph Rhetorical Structure | 第34-37页 |
| ·English Paragraph Rhetorical Structure | 第37-43页 |
| Chapter III An Investigation of Paragraph Rhetorical Structure in English Expository Writings of Chinese Students | 第43-67页 |
| ·Subjects | 第43-44页 |
| ·Methods | 第44-48页 |
| ·Samples Analysis | 第45-46页 |
| ·Questionnaires | 第46-48页 |
| ·Results and Discussion | 第48-67页 |
| ·Sample Analysis | 第48-60页 |
| ·Paragraph in Isolation | 第48-57页 |
| ·Entire Discourse Patterns | 第57-60页 |
| ·Questionnaires | 第60-67页 |
| Chapter IV Implications for Improving Students’English Writing | 第67-77页 |
| ·The Cultivation of Cultural Awareness | 第68-71页 |
| ·Comparing Different Cultural Discourse Styles | 第69-70页 |
| ·Tolerant Attitude to Other Cultures | 第70-71页 |
| ·The Ways to Develop Discourse Competence | 第71-77页 |
| ·Critical Reading | 第72-73页 |
| ·Text Structure Analysis | 第73-75页 |
| ·More Process Writing | 第75-77页 |
| Chapter V Conclusion | 第77-80页 |
| Bibliography | 第80-88页 |
| Appendix I | 第88-90页 |
| Appendix II | 第90-92页 |
| 中文详细摘要 | 第92-96页 |
| 英文详细摘要 | 第96-102页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第102-103页 |
| 导师及作者简介 | 第103页 |
