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Ｄｅｖｅｌｏｐｍｅｎｔ　ｏｆ　Ｗｒｉｔｉｎｇ　Ａｂｉｌｉｔｙ　ｉｎ　Ｅｎｇｌｉｓｈ 　　【Abstract】The Guiding principle for junior English teaching points out: “The aim of junior English teaching is to give the students basic training on how to listen, speak, read and write, to cultivate the students’ primary ability of using English.”［1］Therefore, writing in English is one of the most important contents and requirements of junior English teaching. Since 1998, the junior students have been required to demonstrate their writing ability by writing an 80-word passage, which should be very accurate, coherent, and fluent. 　　So “the middle school teachers must encourage the students to learn to make simple sentences with the vocabulary, grammar, sentence patterns and to write simple passages, letters, e-mails, notes, notices after the styles and models which have been learned.”［2］English, as a most useful language and a most widely used communication means, is very important. The students must acquire the ability of speaking and writing and their all-round ability should be developed. 　　So I write this thesis to discuss and make a research on how to develop and improve the junior students’ writing ability in English. 　　【Key words】Writing ability in English Practice Teaching methods 　　【中图分类号】H315【文献标识码】A【文章编号】1006－9682（2009）05－0057－02 　　 　　Ⅰ、The traditional methods 　　 　　The traditional teaching methods are only to tell the students what principles and rules they should follow, to introduce and explain the usages of words and sentences, the usages of tenses, voices and the rhetoric skills, etc. It’s only prescriptive and the students still wonder how to use English tenses, voices and the rhetoric skills, etc. It’s far from enough to meet the requirements of the aim of improving the students’ writing ability stipulated in the Guiding Principle. 　　“Though the traditional methods enable the students to realize what unity and coherence is and they are even able to distinguish whether the paragraphs are of good