Analysis of Syntactic Errors in College English Writing

摘要

The aim of this study is to search for the best teaching method to help the college students in their writing. This paper presents an analysis of the distribution of syntactic errors in college students' composition, which are incomplete sentence structure, improper use of conjunctions, errors of coordinate relation and Chinese English. The result shows that the main reasons of the syntactic errors are attributed to the transfer of mother tongue and over generalization. The author also puts forward the teaching suggestion and the meaning of error analysis. The result suggests that the better teaching method in college students' writing is of great significance in improving college students' writing ability.