Résumé:
This study is an attempt to investigate the types of errors in paragraph writing. The
hypothesis predicted that Master one students at Mohamed Seddik Ben Yahia University of
Jijel would commit numerous errors in their written compositions that are basically
grammatical. To test this hypothesis, a corpus-based study of thirty exam copies belonging
to Master one students were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively and learners' errors
were identified and classified into eleven categories. The results revealed that grammatical
errors are the most dominant ones in the students' written production, namely spelling,
subject verb agreement, punctuation, verb tense and form, capitalization, fragment, word
choice, pronouns, prepositions, singular and plural forms, and articles. In addition, the
results showed that students were not able to develop a well-formed and cohesive
paragraph. In the light of the obtained results, a set of recommendations were suggested in
order to help EFL learners to minimize errors in their writing
