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Acknowledgments | 第1-5
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中文摘要 | 第5-6
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Abstract | 第6-10
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Chapter One INTRODUCTION | 第10-14
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· Research Origin and Background | 第10-11
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· Research Questions | 第11
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· Motivation | 第11-13
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· Structure of the Thesis | 第13-14
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Chapter Two THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK AND LITERATURE REVIEW | 第14-35
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· Rhetorical Structure Theory | 第14-27
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· Definitions for relations, schemas and structures | 第14-18
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· Relations | 第15-16
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· Schemas and schema applications | 第16-17
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· Order of spans | 第17-18
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· Relations and relation definitions | 第18-25
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· Relations taxonomy | 第18-20
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· Relation definitions | 第20-25
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· History and development of RST | 第25-26
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· The relation between RST and other theories | 第26-27
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· A Literature Review of Relevant Researches | 第27-33
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· Representative papers on RST in China | 第27-28
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· Researches applying RST | 第28-31
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· Researches in Writing | 第31-33
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· Why Using RST as the Framework of this Research? | 第33-35
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Chapter Three RESEARCH DESIGN | 第35-47
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· Research Subjects and Tools | 第35-37
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· Research subjects and raw material collection | 第35-36
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· Research tools | 第36-37
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· Pretreatment of Raw Materials | 第37-40
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· Raw materials | 第37-38
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· Pretreatment of raw materials | 第38-40
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· Punctuation | 第39-40
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· Space | 第40
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· Paragraph marks | 第40
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· RST Discourse Treebank Building | 第40-47
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· Raw corpus building and annotation maxims | 第40-41
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· RST discourse treebank building | 第41-46
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· Segmenting texts into units | 第42-43
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· Building up the discourse structure | 第43-44
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· Determining nuclearity | 第44-45
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· Tagging strategies | 第45-46
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· Quality assurance | 第46-47
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Chapter Four THE COMPARISON BETWEEN THE RHETORICAL STRUCTURE DIAGRAMS OF COMPOSITIONS BY CHINESE STUDENTS AND NATIVE SPEAKERS | 第47-73
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· Findings on Hypothesis One | 第47-54
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· General description of the RST diagrams | 第48-49
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· General preferences for discourse relations | 第49-54
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· Summary of findings corresponding to hypothesis one | 第54
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· Frequency and Position of Joint | 第54-64
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· The reason for studying joint | 第55-56
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· The frequency and position of joint | 第56-64
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· Joints in the RST diagrams of Chinese students' compositions | 第58-61
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· The frequency and position of joints in each diagram | 第59-60
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· Cohesive ties | 第60-61
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· Joints in the RST diagrams of native speakers' compositions | 第61-64
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· The frequency and position of joints in each diagram | 第62
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· Cohesive ties | 第62-64
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· Comparison of joints in the diagrams of Chinese students' and native speakers' compositions | 第64
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· Top Structure of the RST Diagrams of Chinese Students' and Native speakers' Compositions | 第64-73
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· The top structure of the RST diagrams of Chinese students' compositions | 第65-68
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· The top structure of the RST diagrams of native speakers' compositions | 第68-70
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· A detailed description of composition B's diagram | 第70-71
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· Comparison between the top structure of the diagrams of Chinese students' and native speakers' compositions | 第71-73
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Chapter Five CONCLUSION | 第73-76
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· Conclusions | 第73-74
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· Limitations and Further Study | 第74-76
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REFERENCES | 第76-80
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APPENDIX 1 Frequency and Percentage of Each Relation in Chinese Students' Compositions | 第80-81
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APPENDIX 2 Frequency and Percentage of Each Relation in Native Speakers' Compositions | 第81-82
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APPENDIX 3 Sample RST Diagram of One Composition | 第82-83
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APPENDIX 4 Sample Compositions | 第83-96
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作者简介 | 第96
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