This paper is to restate the importance of English writing for the Chinese students. The paper will focus on the problems exist in the students writing, such as, the misunderstood topic, the lexical mistakes, the phrase mistakes, and the coherence and unity errors. And the highlight of the paper is to deal with how to overcome the difficulties by emphasizing the elements, such as deciding on a genre of a composition, unity, and coherence for each paragraph and a whole text, the controlling idea in a paragraph and a composition and the logic realization in writing. Using proper and academic words is also necessary element in composing a text.