• Abebe Tilahun

  Author

Improving writing skills in English is an important concern to the teachers
and learners at undergraduate level. Good writing skills enable the students to
communicate effectively during and after their studies. The learners need to have a
certain amount of L2 background knowledge about the rhetorical organizations,
appropriate language use or specific lexicon with which they want to communicate to
their readers.
A study is conducted among Dilla University students to know their interests,
needs and learning preferences. This study also facilitates the teachers to know the
pulse of the graduate students which helps them to plan and execute their class work.
The researcher collected data from the present and previous students who are
employed in various organizations and are using English for communication in work
places. This data helps us to know the learners needs, to promote the curriculum of
English Writing Skills Course and to advance learners’ writing competence. Against
this background, the present paper focuses on the analysis of students’ needs and then
suggests a few steps to improve the materials and methods to foster the writing
proficiency of undergraduate students. The study tries to enable the learners to take
the responsibility to improve their writing skills by analyzing and addressing their
needs.

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