This study focuses on applying intelligent translation systems in assisting high-quality English writing in the Internet era. The study analyzes statistical machine translation techniques, especially N-gram language modeling and word alignment techniques, and their crucial role in translation quality improvement. In English writing, the intelligent translation system significantly improves the quality of students’ Writing through word block translation. By analyzing 320 students, the mean value of self-efficacy in writing skills of students in the high-quality writing group was 3.78, significantly higher than that of the low-quality group, which was 2.82. After the experiment, 0.57 students indicated that they would improve their English writing vocabulary with the aid of the Intelligent Translation System, which showed the potential of the Intelligent Translation System to enhance students’ interest in and autonomy in Writing. Average distribution analysis shows that word block usage positively correlates with writing performance, with an R Square value of 0.6726. The intelligent translation system improves students’ English writing and enhances their self-efficacy, which is of great significance to English teaching.