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With the analy sis, it emphasizes the importance of text connectivity in forming a coherent text, pointing out that the combined use of various connectivity devices would bring forward a more convincing and inspiring article.

A Study of Foreign Students Errors on the Use of Some Textual Connectives and a Related Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis;

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There are two major features of an abstract: its discourse structure and the language used for condensing the information,which will help one to write a good abstract.

Taking the concept of "register" as the starting point,this paper elaborates the characteristics of lonely heart advertisement under its own register,mainly in its discourse structure and linguistic characteristics.

This paper tries to give a brief description of John Sinclair s concept of discourse structure.