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On Discourse Analysis Theory and College English Teaching Paper Keywords: discourse analysis of discourse patterns of convergence and coherence in English writing Abstract: Writing in English language competence of students is reflected an important aspect, but it is the teaching of English has been the weakest link. This is because too much emphasis in recent years, some English teachers in grammar, less attention is how the phrase structure of language articles in use, resulting in the teaching of English writing at the sentence level, just stop. In this paper, will be introduced to the discourse analysis of the teaching of writing can effectively improve students’ writing skills. English writing in English is one of the four basic language skills, and Chinese college students writing skills in English, but at a lower level, in particular, their level of discourse, especially on the poor writing skills and many students in vocabulary, grammar, etc. in a more solid basic skills, if they are writing the words out of sentences alone, there is no wrong with that, but when these words together into chapters, the overall structure of articles scattered and disorderly, means a lack of convergence does not lead to semantic coherence. Obviously, The traditional mode of teaching English writing can not solve these problems of writing on the discourse level, because the traditional teaching of English writing too much emphasis on knowledge of lexical and syntactic level and ignore the concern level of discourse, but discourse analysis theory for the English Writing teaching opened up a new vision. Discourse analysis is an emerging branch of linguistics, it is mainly the language of the sentence above the level of use and building (Brown and Yule, 1983). so many theories of discourse analysis, such as text mode , convergence and continuity, etc., can be applied to the teaching of English writing in order to enhance students’ English writing skills. First, the the