| Chapter Ⅰ Introduction | 第1-12页 |
| ·Survey of Students' English Writing Ability in China | 第8-9页 |
| ·Previous Research on Teaching English Writing | 第9-10页 |
| ·Experiment | 第10-12页 |
| Chapter Ⅱ Survey of the Writing Ability of High School and College Students | 第12-18页 |
| ·Brief Introduction of T-unit | 第12页 |
| ·Mean T-unit Length in High School Students' Writing | 第12-14页 |
| ·Survey of Writing Ability of College-level Students | 第14-16页 |
| ·Summary | 第16-18页 |
| Chapter Ⅲ Significance of Sentence skills to Chinese High School Students' Writing | 第18-23页 |
| ·Characteristics and Evaluation Principles of the Writing Task in College Entrance Exam | 第18-19页 |
| ·Requirements and Aims of Writing Described in The English Curriculum Criterion | 第19-20页 |
| ·Some Types of Sentences Made by Chinese Students | 第20-21页 |
| ·Summary | 第21-23页 |
| Chapter Ⅳ Sentence Patterns and Sentence Structure: English vs. Chinese | 第23-33页 |
| ·Purpose of This Chapter | 第23页 |
| ·Four Sentence Patterns of English | 第23-25页 |
| ·Other Patterns That Add Variety to Writing | 第25-27页 |
| ·Three Major Contrasts between English and Chinese Sentence Structures | 第27-31页 |
| ·Summary | 第31-33页 |
| Chapter Ⅴ Improving High School Students' Writing Ability Through Sentence Combining | 第33-52页 |
| ·Investigations by Thomas C. Cooper and Hillock | 第33-35页 |
| ·Definition of Sentence Combining | 第35页 |
| ·Theoretical Basis for Improving Students' Writing Ability Through Sentence Combining | 第35-36页 |
| ·Treatments of Teaching Writing Through Sentence-combining Practice | 第36-37页 |
| ·Examples of Sentence-combining Exercises | 第37-49页 |
| ·Summary | 第49-52页 |
| Chapter Ⅵ Experiment in Sentence Combining | 第52-57页 |
| ·Data of the Students' Writing Maturity Before the Experiment | 第52-53页 |
| ·Experiment | 第53-56页 |
| ·Summary | 第56-57页 |
| Bibliography | 第57-60页 |
