What should we teach in the elementary writing class? The purpose of this paper is to propose the syllabus of elementary writing class aimed on discourse structure. In this paper, I mention the following points: 1) the topic in each paragraph and omittable words, 2) how to combine two sentences into one, 3) discourse markers, 4) pronouns used in a context, 5) writer's point of view, 6) the order of description, and 7) a topic and a closing sentence in the paragraph. The elementary writing class taken account of above points was very effective for paragraph writing.
