| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第6-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-12页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第12-16页 |
| ·Need for the study | 第12-13页 |
| ·The experiment conducted at Zhi Chunli Middle School | 第13-15页 |
| ·The Organization of the Thesis | 第15-16页 |
| Chapter 2 Theoretical basis for this research | 第16-29页 |
| ·Schema Theory | 第16-20页 |
| ·Implications for Teaching of Writing | 第16-17页 |
| ·The benefits of the theory to English writing | 第17-18页 |
| ·Applying schema theory to the teaching of English writing | 第18-20页 |
| ·Theoretical Shift in teaching of writing:Product VS Process | 第20-24页 |
| ·The Product Approach | 第20页 |
| ·The Process Approach | 第20-24页 |
| ·The advantages of the Process Approach | 第22-24页 |
| ·The limitations of the Process Approach | 第24页 |
| ·Pre-writing activities as the preliminary stage of a writing process | 第24-29页 |
| ·Brainstorming | 第25-26页 |
| ·Free-writing | 第26-27页 |
| ·Cubing | 第27-29页 |
| Chapter 3 The Rational for the Current Research and research setting | 第29-40页 |
| ·The Need to carry out the research | 第29页 |
| ·Six major problems | 第29-31页 |
| ·Research setting | 第31-32页 |
| ·Object | 第32页 |
| ·Subjects | 第32-33页 |
| ·Instruments | 第33页 |
| ·Procedure | 第33-40页 |
| ·The first questionnaire | 第34页 |
| ·Pre-writing activities training | 第34-36页 |
| ·After-experiment test on composition | 第36-37页 |
| ·The second questionnaire | 第37页 |
| ·Evaluation measures | 第37-40页 |
| Chapter 4 Results and Analyses | 第40-56页 |
| ·Results from the first questionnaire | 第40-46页 |
| ·Poor writing skill | 第40-41页 |
| ·Lacing in vocabulary is the major difficulty | 第41-42页 |
| ·Ways to improve students' English writing | 第42-44页 |
| ·Students' perceptions of writing | 第44-46页 |
| ·Results of the after-training compositions | 第46-48页 |
| ·Results of the second questionnaire | 第48-56页 |
| Chapter 5 Implications and limitations of the Study | 第56-61页 |
| ·Implications for teaching | 第56-59页 |
| ·Raising teachers' awareness | 第56页 |
| ·The role of the teacher | 第56-57页 |
| ·Making writing tasks realistic and relevant | 第57页 |
| ·Providing Pre-writing Strategies | 第57-58页 |
| ·Guiding Through Pre-Writing Stage | 第58页 |
| ·Raising the students' awareness | 第58-59页 |
| ·Limitations | 第59-61页 |
| References | 第61-64页 |
| Appendix 1 | 第64-65页 |
| Appendix 2 | 第65-66页 |
| Appendix 3 | 第66-67页 |
| Appendix 4 | 第67页 |
