In our modern society, English is used as an international language and communication tool, and it plays a more and more important role in the world. University students are regarded as the pioneers of modern information and it is self-evident that English is one of the important channels to get information. However, from the four basic skills of English -- listening, speaking, reading and writing, writing needs the most comprehensive knowledge, the strongest application, and the most difficult training. In order to find out the problems which exist in the cultivation of writing ability of college students, the author had a survey in an Experimental Class of Tianjin University of Finance and Economics in China trying to find out the problems college students encounter in English writing. The data have been gathered from the writing assignments of all the students in one term last year. The focus of this investigation is to analyze the grammatical mistakes in English writing, explore the systematic reasons and finally put forward some corresponding solutions to improve college English writing.
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College English Writing, Grammatical Mistakes, Reasons, Solutions
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LI Fengjie, REN Jia, ZHAO Hongyi. (2016). Grammatical Mistakes in College English Writing: Problem Analysis, Reasons and Solutions. International Journal of Applied Linguistics and Translation, 2(3), 20-28. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijalt.20160203.11
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LI Fengjie, REN Jia, ZHAO Hongyi. Grammatical Mistakes in College English Writing: Problem Analysis, Reasons and Solutions. Int J Appl Linguist Transl. 2016;2(3):20-28. doi: 10.11648/j.ijalt.20160203.11
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