Developing theme and rheme in expository writing: A case study

• 主要作者: Wong, Eric T.K.
• 格式: Book Section
• 語言: English
• 出版: Faculty of Communication and Modern Languages, Universiti Utara Malaysia 2007
• 主題: LB2300 Higher Education; PE English
• 在線閱讀: http://repo.uum.edu.my/3255/1/E1.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/3255/; http://staf.uum.edu.my/tleia2/

Teaching writing to non-native speakers of English demands much more than appropriate sentence construction and grammar. Writing at the tertiary level involves thinking in the English way. The aim of this paper is to examine and identify the weaknesses of theme and rheme in the clause as message fol...