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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 38 College English 46 Writing and Teaching of Writing [Abstract] Writing testing is a kind of integrative testing, which examines students ‘productive skills, receptive skills, as well as the usage of linguistic elements and usage, grammar, etc. Besides, it also tests students’ competence in organizing, analyzing, expressing, logical thinking, and mastering of various writing styles. Writing tests can test different levels and scopes of a language at a time. Thus, it really represents one’s linguistic competence. It’s found that Chinese college students’ English language ability has greatly improved in recent years (from 1992 to 2003). However, the English writing ability is almost stagnant. In order to find out the reasons for this phenomenon, this thesis, based on the previous findings, analyzes the content validity of CET-4 / 6 writing tests, and compares the scoring criteria of CET-4 / 6 writing tests with those of College Entrance Examination (CEE) and with Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) . The analysis and comparison point out such problems as the content validity, the requirements in the number of words, the form of the proposition, the scoring criteria. The existence of these problems has certain harmful backwash effects on college English writing teaching of college students , for example, the deficiency of the content, the dullness of the writing, etc. In line with the previous findings, the paper proposes some effective suggestions about college English writing test. It is hoped that the present study will be helpful for both college English writing and English teaching. [Key Words] CET-4 / 6; writing tests; writing teaching; content validity; backwash effects. Abstract Writing Test is a comprehensive test, which students can not only examine the output of skill, while also examining the acceptability of the students skills, not only to test students in vocabulary, usage, grammar and