Chapter 1 The Origins and Development of ESP 1
Chapter 2 Features of EST 8
Chapter 3 Language Variation and Register Analysis 26
Chapter 4 Discourse Analysis 29
Chapter 5 The Rhetoric of EST Discourse 39
Chapter 6 Defining 47
Chapter 7 Classifying，Comparing，Cause and Effect，Hypothesizing 63
Chapter 8 Exemplifying，Giving Evidence 81
Chapter 9 Experimenting，Reporting，and Describing 92
Chapter 10 Coherence 103
Chapter 11 Cohesive System in the Textual Function 115
Chapter 12 Graphs，Charts，Diagrams，and Tables 127
Chapter 13 Some Articles on Discourse Analysis Written in Chinese 156