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CHAPTER 1 Introduction
1£®1 Backgroundofthe Study
1£®2 Purposes of the Study

CHAPTER 2 Literature Review
2£®1 Contrastive Rhetoric £¨CR£©
2£®1£®1 Background of CR
2£®1£®2 Development of CR
2£®1£®3 Aristotle's Rhetoric Theory and CR
2£®2 Genre Analysis
2£®2£®1 Definition of Genre
2£®2£®2 Definitions of Move and Step
2£®2£®3 Features ofGenreAnalysis
2£®3 Systemic Functional Linguistics
2£®3£®1 Theory of Context
2£®3£®2 System of Interpersonal Function
2£®3£®3 Hasan's Contextual Configuration
2£®4 Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA£©
2£®4£®1 Principles of CDA
2£®4£®2 Methodology of CDA
2£®4£®3 Fairclough's CDA
2£®4£®4 Critiques ofCDA
2£®5 Studies in Writing of English for Specific Purposes (ESP£©
2£®5£®1 Definition ofESP
2£®5£®2 Studies in ESP Writing
2£®6 English Job Application Letters
2£®6£®1 Functions
2£®6£®2 Previous Studies

CHAPTER 3 Research Design
3£®1 Participants
3£®2 Instruments
3£®3 Data Analysis
3£®3£®1 Analysis of Moves and Rhetorical Structures
3£®3£®2 Analysis of Linguistic Features
3£®3£®3 Analysis of Persuasive Appeals

CHAPTER 4 Results and Discussions
4£®1 Analysis of Moves and Rhetorical Structures
4£®1£®1 Moves£¬ Steps£¬ and Sub-steps
4£®1£®2 Rhetorical Structures
4£®2 Analysis of Linguistic Features
4£®2£®1 Statistics of Wordlists
4£®2£®2 Person
4£®2£®3 Mood
4£®2£®4 Modal Auxiliaries
4£®2£®5 Interpersonal Metaphors
4£®3 Analysis of Persuasive Appeals

CHAPTER 5 Conclusions
REFERENCES
APPENDIX A Informed Consent Forms
APPENDIX B Task Assignment for Chinese College Students
APPENDIX C Examples of English Job application Letters in Corpora A£¬ B and C
APPENDIX D Extracts of Concordance List
INDEX
EPILOGUE