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Pragmatic presupposition is not only related to discourse inference, but establishes a framework for the further development of the discourse and plays an important role in discourse cohesion. There has been some relevant research in discussing the discourse function of pragmatic presupposition. However, there is still a few researches on how to use pragmatic presupposition to improve students’ discourse cohesion in English writing teaching. Therefore, in this paper, the concept and working principle of pragmatic presupposition are combined with organizational skills, stylistic skills and judgement skills of writing competence, trying to find an approach to cultivate the students’ basic discourse cohesion awareness in teaching English writing and to improve their writing confidence.
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