Contrastive Rhetoric Of English & Chinese Text Patterns And College English Teaching Of Writing

Writing is an intellectual course of organizing language and expressing idea. How to improve English writing ability is still a rather difficult task for Chinese English learners and teachers as well. During the traditional teaching activities, compared to grammar and vocabulary, not all the teachers emphasize the arrangement of information. The contents of students'compositions are empty and their abilities of organizing materials are relatively weak.The aim of this thesis is to focus on the development of Contrastive Rhetoric, analyze text patterns and rhetorical strategies both in English and Chinese writings by using theory of text patterns, genre theory, conclude the similarities and differences between the two, give relatively more comprehensive explanations of the findings, and finally make some suggestions on the teaching of the second language writing.Two researches are done through the analysis of 48 Chinese students'compositions and 32 accomplished writings. There is a discrepancy between English and Chinese text patterns. Thought patterns and cultural factors are considered the main reasons. English writing teaching can be done from text-pattern perspective. Teachers should raise students'awareness of difference between English and Chinese thought patterns and cultures, and guide students to improve their reasoning and inferring abilities.