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In this study, 200 volunteer students who were in Faculty of Education printed free essay compositions and the compositions were evaluated by descriptive statistics and content analysis. Content analysis is to interpret similar data within specific contexts and themes. The students were free to choose their own writing topic. The reason for this is the possibility that the person writing in freelance writing is feeling freer and thus able to collect more data. Thus, written expression errors will be examined in more detail. The data have been examined and themed. In this process, collected data were evaluated according to written expression evaluation scale. The results of this study indicated that 200 data points collected from education faculty students regarding written expression skills were found between acceptable “DC” in terms of arithmetic mean. Research is important in terms of revealing the mistakes that are often found in written expressions of teacher candidates. This research is also important for lecturers in terms of assessing the participant teacher candidates’ attitudes towards writing. According to the findings of this research, it is expected that the mistakes of teacher candidates’ in their written expressions are made clear, and that contributions of the recommendations and the studies related to the field are expected to be provided. It is expected that the comparison of the study with the previous studies reveal the changes and developments in the historical process related to the subject. Key words: Language skills, Turkish education, teacher candidates, writing skills.