Attitudes Towards The Importance of Teaching Writing among Teachers and Students

Abstract

This study is an attempt to shed lights on the attitudes towards the importance of teaching academic writing among teachers and students. Since it was investigated before that there was problematic writing encountered by Libyan Medical students who are studying through the medium of English presented in my study conducted in May/ 2008 , problems that hinder students producing a good piece of writing.
 According to the researcher's experience of the students writing problems of English department students, and the difficulties in carrying out different writing duties. This may be considered as an obstacle hindering them to get advance in English and even in conducting their research projects at the end of study.
 Therefore, it is a need now to give an overview to some attitudes towards the importance of teaching writing in an appropriate way in order to solve those problems in writing. So, this study consists of an introduction followed by a literature review about the problems and needs of teaching writing starting with the question what is writing? To give a definition to the reason of the study. Later there is a questionnaire distributed to the writing teachers, with another students' questionnaire as a sub component to the study. Finally, there is an analysis of the two questionnaires and it ends with a conclusion and some of the teacher's recommendations.