On Writing Strategies of Enhancing Students’ Writing Skills
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This thesis, by means of contrastive analysis, conducts a discussion of the factors that affect students’ English writing. The perspective of language transfer, small vocabulary, insufficient writing skills, culture differences, and different writing styles are mentioned in the next section. Under the guidance of constructivism theory, this paper proposes some effective teaching strategies to improve students’ writing level and some writing strategies to enhance students’ writing skills. By this detailed probe into students’ writing situation, the author aims to give some useful suggestions to contribute to English writing.
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