| Abstract in English | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第7-9页 |
| Contents | 第9-12页 |
| Abbreviations | 第12-13页 |
| Introduction | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter Ⅰ Literature Review | 第15-33页 |
| ·Some basic issues | 第15-27页 |
| ·Discourse and text | 第15页 |
| ·Nature of writing | 第15-21页 |
| ·The importance of writing skill | 第21-25页 |
| ·Approaches | 第25-27页 |
| ·Studies on cohesion | 第27-30页 |
| ·Analysis of the studies | 第30-32页 |
| ·Purpose of the study | 第32-33页 |
| Chapter Ⅱ Theoretical Basis of the Study | 第33-45页 |
| ·Brief discussion on the relationship between cohesion and coherence | 第33-38页 |
| ·Origin of the two terms-cohesion and coherence | 第33-34页 |
| ·Opinions on the relationship between cohesion and coherence | 第34-38页 |
| ·Possibility of quantitative analysis of text coherence | 第38-39页 |
| ·Halliday and Hasan's (1976) taxonomy of cohesive devices | 第39-43页 |
| ·Non-structural cohesive devices | 第39-41页 |
| ·Structural- cohesion | 第41-43页 |
| ·A social constructivist model | 第43-45页 |
| ·Summary | 第45页 |
| Chapter Ⅲ Research Design | 第45-53页 |
| ·Research questions | 第45-46页 |
| ·Some hypotheses | 第46-47页 |
| ·Research design in brief | 第47-52页 |
| ·Control variables in the research | 第47-51页 |
| ·Data collection and data analysis procedure | 第51-52页 |
| ·Analytic approach to the study | 第52页 |
| ·Research design(2) | 第52-53页 |
| Chapter Ⅳ The Study | 第53-73页 |
| ·Teaching procedures | 第53-61页 |
| ·Reading and explaining | 第53-54页 |
| ·Exercises | 第54-59页 |
| 4 1.3 Writing | 第59-60页 |
| ·Major difference between treatment of EC and CC | 第60-61页 |
| ·Data analyses | 第61-70页 |
| ·Data analysis of Pretest and posttest | 第62-63页 |
| ·Discussion of pretest and posttest | 第63页 |
| ·Data Analysis of Draft 3 and draft 4 of the second regular paper | 第63-65页 |
| ·Discussion of draft 3 and draft 4 | 第65页 |
| ·Sample essay selection | 第65页 |
| ·Division of the groups | 第65-66页 |
| ·Collecting the data of the sample essays | 第66-67页 |
| ·Analysis of all cohesive ties | 第67-68页 |
| ·Correlation analysis of sub-categories of lexical devices to the quality of sanple essays | 第68-69页 |
| ·Multiple regression analysis | 第69-70页 |
| ·Summary of the data analyses | 第70页 |
| ·Discussion | 第70-71页 |
| ·Reasons for SE's improvement in argumentative writing ability | 第71-72页 |
| ·Weak areas in the SE's use of cohesive devices | 第72-73页 |
| Chapter Ⅴ Pedagogical Implication | 第73-85页 |
| ·Implications from hypothesis (1) | 第74-80页 |
| ·A new perspective to look at writing process | 第74-75页 |
| ·A feasible pedagogy to teach writing | 第75-76页 |
| ·A reference for teaching procedures in EFL writing | 第76-80页 |
| ·Implications from questions(2),(3), and (4) | 第80-85页 |
| ·Grammatical cohesive devices -reference and conjunction | 第80页 |
| ·Lexical cohesion - antonym, synonym and collocation | 第80-85页 |
| Condusion | 第85-87页 |
| Bibliography | 第87-95页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第95-96页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ | 第96-100页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ | 第100-101页 |
| Appendix Ⅲ | 第101-102页 |
| Appendix Ⅳ | 第102-104页 |
| 研究生学习期间公开发表的论文 | 第104-105页 |
| 学位论文评阅及答辩情况表 | 第105页 |
