The purpose of this paper is to suggest effective methods for developing academic writing proficiency of foreign students. College students are required to write texts that meet the needs of academic discourse community. But their poor Korean ability is not good enough for foreign students to improve their academic writing proficiency. That's why they need effective methods of Korean writing education. The summary of this paper is as follows. Korean learners with the academic purpose need to learn a variety of expressions and functions through a result-centered writing education. The reason is that, by reading and imitating various sentences in their textbooks, they can get used to making use of those expressions, and accordingly can make similar sentences. Moreover, expressions, such as definition, comparison, analysis, classification, quotation, and illustration, frequently appearing in their major textbooks, enable them to do the job better. (Keimyung University)