The number of international students at Kanazawa University is increasing every year, and the necessity of improving the international students' Japanese writing skills, especially skills in writing reports in university classes is also increasing. In this paper, the author describes the outline of the Class "Japanese Academic Writing I" during four years, from Spring Semester 2017 to Autumn Semester 2020. In this class, a questionnaire survey is carried out among the international students

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... y semester, to reveal their actual situation of writing reports. The survey's result shows that the students realize their basic skills to write reports, for example, how to quote information, how to write one's opinion, how to explain some figures or graphs, have improved.