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精品论文 参考文献 连贯理论在英文写作中的应用 莫文业 广西经济管理干部学院 【Abstract】Writing is a process of forming a text that serves as a communication bridge between the writer and reader. Cohesion and coherence in writing a text provide the means for both writer and reader to communicate. How to apply the theory of coherence properly and how to direct our students in writing a coherent text are what we explore in this paper. 【Key words】Cohesion and coherence The theory of coherence 【中图分类号】 G642 【文献标识码】 A【文章编号】 1674－4810（2009）12－0029－03 1．Introduction Writing is a process of forming a text that serves as a communication bridge between the writer and the reader. In this process, the writerrsquo;s prime concerns are to convey clearly what he encodes in writing, and the readerrsquo;s main task is to facilitate the message of the writer, or to decode it correctly and easily. To do this, both parties have to abide by “Game rules”, “Game rules” here means certain rules the writer uses by which to organize the true and pure forms and structure into a coherent whole regarding as a particular topic. For the reader they are rules by which to interpret the forms by reconstituting them. “Game Rules” give both writer and reader a shared linguistic knowledge or expectedness of content or form needed for communication. However, this writing process constitutes an irksome and problematic activity in studentsrsquo; learning English. During the process of English teaching, we find out the causes of learnersrsquo; writing problems. Among them, two major ones are presented as follows: the discontinuity of cohesion and the discontinuity of coherence. It is suggested that two factors are mainly responsible for these two discontinuities. One is “alternative uses of different registers” and the other is an “indirect approach” used by learners to develop their topics. Both of them cause the flow of discourse to stop and deviate from topics, which results in the fore mentioned discontinuiti