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Discourse Strategies in the Teaching of English Writing 　　[a]Foreign Language College, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, China. 　　*Corresponding author. 　　Received 3 May 2013; accepted 23 August 2013 　　Abstract 　　This paper explores the text types, text patterns and text topic continuity which may be found in texts which are the objects of interpretation by the reader, and they are often signaled by the grammatical and lexical devices. So they are very useful for the teaching of writing. 　　Key words: Text types; Patterns; Topic continuity; English writing 　　CUI Fengshuang (2013). Discourse Strategies in the Teaching of English Writing. Higher Education of Social Science, 5(2), -0. Available from: URL: /index.php/hess/article/view/j.hess.1927024020130502.2767 　　DOI: /10.3968/j.hess.1927024020130502.2767 　　INTRODUCTION 　　Discourses with different types have not only different linguistic styles, but also different structural patterns. Discourse types determine the formation of formal structures of texts and this determination leads to the formation of discourse pattern. This paper explores the text types, patterns and topic continuity which may be found in texts are the objects of interpretation by the reader, and they are often signaled by the grammatical and lexical devices. So they are very useful for the teaching of writing. As to the methodological principle, the research done in the dissertation follows the integration of induction and deduction. It first postulates the definition of the text types, text patterns and text topic continuity. It studies how the text types, text patterns and text topic continuity contribute to text construction. It is concerned with the structures of the clause and text. The hypothetical theory is testified by the quantitative and critical writing of advertisement text. 　　The theoretical framework of this dissertation is Halliday’s systemic functional theory, especially functional grammar. This the