The problems and the countermeasures of college english writing teaching

English writing is one basic skill of English learning and teachers always pay much attention to it, but there are still a lot of problems existing in students' writing. They always commit many mistakes without enough awareness. This paper aims to find out students' typical mistakes and identify the main reasons of problems in their writing and then find out the countermeasures to help them improve their writing. As a college English teacher, the author made adequate researches among 124 freshmen and sophomores from four different classes, and collected 124 writings submitted by them, then analyzed their mistakes to identify the specific problems in writing by using the methods of documentary and mathematical statistics. After analyzing, the author found out that there were mainly four kinds of mistakes in their papers: morphology mistakes, syntax mistakes, stylistic mistakes and structure mistakes. To these four key mistakes, the author presents four kinds of countermeasures respectively as the result: strengthening their word basis, stressing grammar training, giving them enough stylistic knowledge and having outline training in writing class. Since the papers coming from 124 students from different majors and different grades, these mistakes are representatives, so the countermeasures could basically solve the problems in college English writing, and appropriately applying these measures in English teaching classes will effectively improve students' writing abilities.