Writing is a very important skill in teaching and learning English especially paragraph writing. But for the first – year language students at National Economics University (NEU), they still get many difficulties in paragraph writing. Understanding their problems, I decided to do a research on teaching paragraph writing with the hope that I can provide the teachers of English at NEW with the real situation about their students’ difficulties.

In the study, I try to find out the students’ common errors in language, idea organization, and content. With these findings, I will recommend the best teaching methodology to help teachers of English deal with their students’ problems like using pictures and using readings with various activities such as working with the text using copying, working with the text to examine cohesive links, working with the text to combine sentence, etc. Moreover, I will mentions to teachers’ correction. How to deal with students’ errors? Which errors teachers should correct? When to correct? I myself also will design a check – list of paragraph writing for students can check by themselves or check for their partners.

With my findings and my suggestions for teaching paragraph writing for the first year language students at NEW, I hope that the teachers of English at NEW will have a basic background of students to apply a suitable way of teaching in order help them to overcome their problems.