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香港中文大学研究人员 ( 现职)
| Professor George Stanley BRAINE (英文系) |
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| 数位物件识别号 (DOI) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2005.02.002 |
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摘要Because cohesion is important both to the reader and the writer to create and comprehend a text, teachers have placed much emphasis on text cohesion and coherence in their teaching and evaluation of writing. Using Halliday and Hasan's [Halliday, M.A.K., Hasan, R. (1976). Cohesion in English. Longman, London] taxonomy of cohesive devices and their framework for analysis, this study investigated the use of cohesive devices in 50 argumentative compositions created by Chinese undergraduate non-English majors. It was found that the students were able to use a variety of cohesive devices in their writing, among which lexical devices formed the largest percentage of the total number of cohesive devices, followed by references and conjunctives. The quality of writing was also revealed to significantly co-vary with the number of lexical devices and the total number of cohesive devices used. Apart from that, certain problems were identified in the writing in terms of the use of reference and lexical devices. ? 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
着者Liu M., Braine G.
期刊名称System
出版年份2005
月份12
日期1
卷号http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/33
期次4
出版社Pergamon Press Ltd.
出版地United Kingdom
页次623 - 636
国际标準期刊号0346-251X
电子国际标準期刊号1879-3282
语言英式英语
关键词Argumentative writing, Chinese undergraduate non-English majors, Cohesive features, Conjunction tie, Lexical tie, Reference tie
