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前言
论文说明：LIST OF FIGURES、LIST OF TABLES
声明
Acknowledgements
Chapter One Introduction
1 .1 Motivation
1.2 Research questions
1.3 Structure of the thesis
Chapter Two Literature Review
2.1 Definition and development of discourse analysis
2.2 Coherence and cohesion
2.2.1 Coherence
2.2.2 Cohesion
2.2.3 Different opinions about relationship between coherence and cohesion
2.2.4 Halliday and Hason's taxonomy of cohesive devices
2.3 A brief introduction to Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST)
2.3.1 Relations
2.3.2 The procedure of RST
2.4 RST, coherence and cohesion
2.5 Relevant researches
Chapter Three Methodology
3.1 Research design
3.1.1 The subjects
3.1.2 Writing task
3.1.3 Data collection
3.2 Annotation tool——RST Tool
3.3 Data analysis
3.4 Quality assurance
Chapter Four Results and Discussion
4.1 Students' general preference for discourse relations
4.2 Rhetorical relations and textual coherence
4.2.1 Relationship between grade level and wrong relations
4.2.2 Relationship between grade level and proper use of rhetorical relations
4.3 Macro analysis: comparison of the overall top-level rhetorical structure
4.4 Micro analysis: comparison of discourse markers
4.4.1 Students' discourse markers preference
4.4.3 Students' use of discourse markers to trigger relations across groups
4.4.4 Case study of students' discourse markers preference
4.5 Discussion of major findings
4.5.1 Major findings
4.5.2 Discussion in general
Chapter Five Conclusion
5.1 Conclusion
5.2 Implications of this study
5.3 Limitations of the Study
References
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