| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Academic Achievements | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-9页 |
| Table of Contents | 第9-11页 |
| List of Figures | 第11-12页 |
| List of Tables | 第12-13页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第13-20页 |
| ·Research Background | 第13-18页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第18页 |
| ·Research Hypotheses | 第18-19页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第19-20页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第20-28页 |
| ·The Relationship between Syntactic Complexity and Writing Quality | 第20-22页 |
| ·The Relationship between Syntactic Complexity and Grades | 第22-24页 |
| ·The Relationship between Syntactic Complexity and Genres | 第24-25页 |
| ·The Relationship between Syntactic Complexity and Measures of Syntactic Complexity | 第25-28页 |
| Chapter Three Methodology | 第28-35页 |
| ·Research questions | 第28-29页 |
| ·Subjects | 第29-32页 |
| ·The Introduction of SWECCL (2.0) | 第29-30页 |
| ·The Selection of Research Subjects | 第30-32页 |
| ·Research Instruments | 第32-35页 |
| ·L2 Syntactic Complexity Analyzer | 第33页 |
| ·Quantitative Analyses | 第33-35页 |
| Chapter Four Results and Analyses | 第35-49页 |
| ·Correlation between measures of syntactic complexity and writing quality in the four groups | 第35-43页 |
| ·Measures of syntactic complexity between groups | 第43-46页 |
| ·The correlations between the 14 measures of syntactic complexity | 第46-47页 |
| ·Summary | 第47-49页 |
| Chapter Five Discussion | 第49-55页 |
| ·Discussions of correlation between measures of syntactic complexity and writing quality of the four groups | 第49-52页 |
| ·Discussions of the difference in syntactic complexity measures between groups via Post Hoc Tests in terms of Scheffe | 第52-53页 |
| ·Discussions of the correlations between the 14 measures of syntactic complexity | 第53-54页 |
| ·Summary | 第54-55页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第55-59页 |
| ·Findings | 第55-57页 |
| ·Limitations and recommendations for future research | 第57页 |
| ·Implications | 第57-59页 |
| References | 第59-62页 |
| Appendices | 第62-66页 |
