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This paper aimed to explore the types of English writing errors frequently made by Nursing College students. 4,220 English sentences, extracted from the descriptive writing missions performed by 420 ENP(English for Nursing Purposes) learners, were analyzed based on the revised version of 5 English Writing error categories suggested in Ferris & Helt(2000), Ferris(2002) and Lim(2018). Among the targeted sentences, 4 types of English writing errors were found. First, the most common errors made by nursing majored students were ‘mechanical errors’ like ‘punctuation errors.’ ‘Determiner errors’ rather than ‘Article errors’ were frequently found. However, ‘article missing’ before certain medical words, like ‘headache,’ ‘cold(influenza)’ or ‘diabetes,’ were frequently found. There was also the result of ‘misspelling’ related to technical terms like ‘appendicitis.’ Finally, the frequent incorrectness due to the misuse or misunderstanding of active/passive sentence, for example, ‘A patient was performed appendectomy,’ was often observed. This result of the study suggests that the teaching method of English Writing targeting English for Nursing Purposes class should be pursued based on writing error analysis. In this paper, a more effective way of English writing teaching is exploited for EFL students in the ENP classroom.