English Writing Teaching In College Classroom Through Contrastive Rhetoric

College students have already mastered much linguistic knowledge of English when they enter college, but that does not necessarily mean that they could use the language fluently and successfully in communication, including writing in English. English writing is especially a weak point to many students in fact. In this case, they do need opportunities in class to practice writing under teacher's guidance. Then, what and how the teacher should guide students to write in class is considered.Recently, in China, the theory of contrastive studies of English and Chinese prevails in research on writing. However, there are few researches on how to apply these achievements into teaching practice. The aim of this thesis is to inspect, through experiment, whether contrastive studies on the differences between English and Chinese writing patterns is suitable for the college English writing teaching practice to non-English majors, and how to help them shake off the fetters of Chinese way of writing English.In order to test the feasibility of such writing teaching, two classes are employed to receive different instructions. Experimental class is given courses focusing on the differences between Chinese and English essays. While, at the same time, Control class is still taught according to the traditional way of writing teaching from the course book. After two-month training, it turns out that all those studies and experiments indicate the necessity, feasibility and practicality of the instruction on the differences between Chinese and English writing patterns.