| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第5-7页 |
| Abstract in English | 第7-12页 |
| I. Introduction | 第12-16页 |
| II. Literature Review of Negative Transfer | 第16-25页 |
| ·Theoretical accounts of negative transfer | 第16-21页 |
| ·The account of negative transfer as interference | 第17-18页 |
| ·Minimalist accounts of negative transfer | 第18-20页 |
| ·Cognitive accounts of negative transfer | 第20-21页 |
| ·Researches on negative transfer in writing | 第21-25页 |
| ·Researches on negative transfer in writing product | 第21-24页 |
| ·Researches on negative transfer in writing process | 第24-25页 |
| III. A Comparison of Sentence Patterns in Chinese and English | 第25-30页 |
| ·Topic-comment sentence vs subject-predicate sentence | 第25-27页 |
| ·Multi-predicate sentence vs multi-preposition & noun sentence | 第27页 |
| ·Paratactic sentence vs hypotactic sentence | 第27-30页 |
| IV. A Research on Negative Transfer in Students' Compositions | 第30-42页 |
| ·Aims | 第30页 |
| ·Subjects | 第30-31页 |
| ·Methods | 第31页 |
| ·Procedure | 第31-35页 |
| ·Data collection | 第31-34页 |
| ·Interview | 第34-35页 |
| ·Data analysis | 第35-42页 |
| ·Analysis of topic-comment sentence | 第35-38页 |
| ·Analysis of multi-predicate sentence | 第38-39页 |
| ·Analysis of paratactic sentence | 第39-42页 |
| V. Causes of Negative Transfer in Students' Compositions | 第42-52页 |
| ·Negative transfer of Chinese thought patterns on English writing | 第42-48页 |
| ·Negative transfer of Chinese global thought on English writing | 第43-44页 |
| ·Negative transfer of Chinese imaginational thought on English writing | 第44-45页 |
| ·Negative transfer of Chinese dialectical thought on English writing | 第45-48页 |
| ·Psychological Explanation of Chinese Language Transfer | 第48-52页 |
| VI. Implications of Teaching Writing | 第52-56页 |
| ·Introduction of contrastive thought patterns in class | 第52-53页 |
| ·Introduction of contrastive discourses in class | 第53-54页 |
| ·Introduction of contrastive sentence patterns in class | 第54-55页 |
| ·Introduction of translation skills in class | 第55-56页 |
| VII. Conclusion | 第56-57页 |
| Bibliography | 第57-61页 |
