Discourse Strategies in the Teaching of English Writing

Fengshuang CUI

Abstract


This paper explores the text types, text patterns and text topic continuity which may be found in texts which are the objects of interpretation by the reader, and they are often signaled by the grammatical and lexical devices. So they are very useful for the teaching of writing.

Keywords


Text types; Patterns; Topic continuity; English writing

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/j.hess.1927024020130502.2767

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