| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-13页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第13-17页 |
| ·The importance of English argumentative writing | 第13-14页 |
| ·The current situation of Chinese EFL learners’ English argumentative writing | 第14页 |
| ·Motivation for the thesis research | 第14-15页 |
| ·Overview of the thesis | 第15-17页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第17-27页 |
| ·Language, thought and thinking pattern | 第17-19页 |
| ·Sapir-Whorf hypothesis | 第17-18页 |
| ·Language and thinking pattern | 第18-19页 |
| ·Different thinking patterns between the westerners and easterners | 第19-20页 |
| ·Eastern thinking pattern | 第19-20页 |
| ·Western thinking pattern | 第20页 |
| ·Thinking pattern and writing style | 第20-21页 |
| ·Contrastive rhetoric | 第21-23页 |
| ·Aristotelian rhetoric | 第21-22页 |
| ·Kaplan’s work on contrastive rhetoric | 第22-23页 |
| ·Influences of L1 thinking pattern on EFL English writing | 第23-25页 |
| ·Influences of L1 thinking pattern on EFL English writing abroad | 第24页 |
| ·Influences of L1 thinking pattern on EFL English writing home | 第24-25页 |
| ·Research gaps | 第25-27页 |
| Chapter Three “Tree analysis diagram” | 第27-32页 |
| ·Theoretical basis | 第27-29页 |
| ·Expansion of the Toulmin model--- the “tree analysis diagram” | 第29-31页 |
| ·The application of the “tree analysis diagram” in English argumentative writing | 第31-32页 |
| Chapter Four Methodology | 第32-37页 |
| ·Research design | 第32-34页 |
| ·Research questions | 第32页 |
| ·Profile of the participants | 第32-33页 |
| ·Research instrument | 第33-34页 |
| ·Experiment procedures and data collection | 第34-37页 |
| ·Pre-questionnaire survey and collection of the first English argumentative writing samples of the subjects | 第35页 |
| ·Application of the “tree analysis diagram” in the experimental group | 第35页 |
| ·Collection of the second English argumentative writing samples of the subjects | 第35-36页 |
| ·Post-questionnaire survey and collection of the third English argumentative writing samples | 第36-37页 |
| Chapter Five Integrated Analysis of the Results | 第37-57页 |
| ·Analysis of the first research question | 第37-40页 |
| ·Analysis of the second research question | 第40-46页 |
| ·Analysis of the third research question | 第46-53页 |
| ·Analysis of the organizational pattern of the students’ writing sample | 第46-52页 |
| ·Attitudes toward the “tree analysis diagram” | 第52-53页 |
| ·Results of students’ attitudes toward English writing | 第53-55页 |
| ·Summary of the Results | 第55-57页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion and Discussion | 第57-60页 |
| ·Major findings | 第57-58页 |
| ·Further research | 第58页 |
| ·Conclusions | 第58-60页 |
| Works Cited | 第60-64页 |
| Appendix | 第64-67页 |
