A Study On The Use Of Cohesions In Chinese College English Argumentative Writing

Writing is one of the most significant communication tools of five basic skills which are listening, speaking, reading, writing and translation. The competence in writing needs not only mastering the ability of spelling, punctuation, grammar, but also the correct use of cohesion. The thesis mainly made the research on the usage of cohesions but, however and so in Chinese College English argumentative writing. At the end of the thesis, the author gives some suggestions to the teachers and students for the sake of improving the non-English major students’writing quality.The research use SPSS (17.0) to discuss the problems around these two questions:1) What are the characteristics of using but, however and so in the high and low marks of the compositions in the writing of College English students?2) Whether the frequent use of but, however and so in writing will affect the final score for College English students or not?The author has two findings in the study:1) No matter the groups of high marks and low marks, students all overuse but and so, and underuse however. The low group used more but, however and so than the high group.2) The frequency of but, however and so will affect the quality and the final score of the argumentative writing.Based on the above study, teachers should change the respective to treat the students’compositions, placing coherence and cohesion the position prior to all factors that can influence the quality of the texts. Reverse completely the conventional standards of evaluating the writings, and then the students would be aware of the importance of cohesion and coherence in their writings. And only in this way, the students can write a composition without sentence-level errors.