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The purpose of this study is to supplement the teaching method and contents of writing paragraph of foreign students, which is a basic unit of academic writing, based upon the analysis of their actual paragraph writings and the recent academic writing teaching materials. The analysis of foreign students' paragraph writings allowed to know that foreign students often write background sentence prior to topic sentence when they start writing paragraph. Also, in their supporting sentences, we can easily find the sentences that are less linked to the topic one. On the other hand, arranging supporting sentences in right order is found as problem for them. Even though they know what they want to write, they can hardly put them in right order. To try to solve that problem, I have suggested a practice for helping them make a good paragraph, which can be meaningful activity to make up the weak points of paragraph writing practices in the recent academic writing teaching materials.