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Concerning the four skills involved in the IELTS test, writing is considered the most challenging for most students at the Faculty of International Education, University of  Transport and communication. When being tested, those students tend to replicate the vast majority of the original texts from the question or use the words repeatedly. They are confident with their paraphrasing skills due to the lack of instructions and self-practicing. The author conducted a survey to identify the difficulties students encountered when paraphrasing when writing IELTS essay tasks, especially with the use of online paraphrasing tools, to improve the student’s achievement and enjoyment in paraphrasing in writing tasks. To achieve writing competency, long-term preparation is necessary for students to be equipped with sufficient skills and lexical resources for every writing task. The article also suggests several effective and precise word, phrase and sentence-based paraphrasing measures, and emphasizes the effective exploitation of online paraphrasing tools to improve the students’ English writing competency in general and paraphrasing capacity in particular, promoting their self-study capacity and interest in learning.