大学生英语写作能力是大学听、说、读、写、译五项基本技能之一,也是衡量学生英语综合水平的一个重要指标。很多学生反映在英语写作过程中不知所措,言之无物,单词句式匮乏,错误百出。在教学中也存在学生写作能力难以提高的问题,因此本文试图将图式理论应用于写作教学中,以期切实提高写作教学的效果。 College students’ ability of writing English is one of the five basic skills of listening, speaking, reading, writing and translating. It is also an important indicator to measure the overall level of English of students. Many students reflected in the process of writing in English at a loss what to do, the word sentence lacking, mistakes. In teaching, there is also a problem that students’ ability to write is hard to be improved. Therefore, this paper attempts to apply schema theory to writing teaching so as to improve the effect of writing teaching.