| Introduction | 第1-13页 |
| Chapter One Importance and Necessity of Prewriting Activities | 第13-19页 |
| 1． High Demands of Writing Ability | 第13-14页 |
| 2． Problems Existing in Chinese Teachers' Writing Class | 第14-17页 |
| 3． The Writing Ability of Chinese Students | 第17-19页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第19-23页 |
| 1． Shuell's definition of learning | 第19页 |
| 2． The Schemata theory | 第19-23页 |
| 2．1． Relationship between Schemata and Prior Learning | 第20-23页 |
| Chapter Three Previous Research | 第23-39页 |
| 1． From Product to Process | 第23-26页 |
| 2． The Process Approach | 第26-30页 |
| 3． Prewriting Activities | 第30-31页 |
| 3．1 Open-ended | 第31-34页 |
| Brainstorming | 第32-33页 |
| Freewriting | 第33-34页 |
| Looping | 第34页 |
| 3．2 SystematicHeuristics | 第34-36页 |
| Classical invention | 第34-35页 |
| Cubing | 第35-36页 |
| 3．3 Hierarchical Treeing | 第36页 |
| 3．4 Summarizing Session | 第36-37页 |
| 3．5 Prewriting Activities Benefits Writing | 第37-39页 |
| Chapter Four the Current Research | 第39-46页 |
| 1．Hypothese | 第39页 |
| 2． Subjects | 第39-40页 |
| 3． Procedures | 第40-43页 |
| 4． Evaluation Measures | 第43-46页 |
| A． Content Development | 第44页 |
| B． Language Complexity | 第44-45页 |
| C． Accuracy | 第45-46页 |
| Chapter Five Results and Analyses | 第46-61页 |
| 1． The Results and Analyses of the First Questionnaire | 第46-52页 |
| Relatively Poor Skill Is Writing | 第46-47页 |
| Students Highlight Practice | 第47页 |
| What They Need Most Is Group Work | 第47-48页 |
| The Major Difficult Problem In Writing Is Vocabulary | 第48-50页 |
| The Different Ways of Helping Writing Was Viewed | 第50-51页 |
| Students' Perceptions of Writing Is Discussed | 第51-52页 |
| 2．The Results and Assessment of the Compositions | 第52-53页 |
| 3． The Results and Analyses of the Second Questionnaire | 第53-61页 |
| Chapter Six Limitations and application of the study | 第61-68页 |
| 1． Limitations | 第61-63页 |
| 2． Application | 第63-68页 |
| Reshaping Students' Perception of Writing． | 第63-64页 |
| Regarding Students as Writers | 第64-65页 |
| Guiding Through Prewriting Stage | 第65页 |
| Providing Prewriting Activities Accordingly | 第65-66页 |
| Providing Relevant Input | 第66-67页 |
| Making Writing Tasks Realistic and Relevant | 第67-68页 |
| Conclusion | 第68-70页 |
| References | 第70-74页 |
| Appendix 1 the First Questionnaire and the Results | 第74-76页 |
| Appendix 2 the Results of the Composition Analysis | 第76-77页 |
| Appendix3 the Composition Assessment | 第77-78页 |
| Appendix4The results of the composition | 第78-79页 |
