A study on college English writing instructions for non-English majors

The present study tries to explore some effective approaches to college English writing instructions for non-English majors in China. Based on quantitative analysis of students´ needs and current teaching and learning situations of college English writing in China, the author comes up with six suggested approaches, namely, integrating writing with reading and speaking to enhance students´ comprehensive competence; conducting group discussion and group error correction to create student-centered class mode and improve learner autonomy; providing hyper-syntactic analysis and sample essay to improve students´ logical thinking and writing techniques. A questionnaire was conducted in order to analyze students´ needs in college English writing class to provide foundation for this research.