This paper discusses the concepts of “writing”, “written speech” and “writing competence” in terms of methodology and introduces approaches to enhance this very competence of students in higher education. Indeed, writing seems the most problematic skills as opposed to other ones since it requires creativity, language awareness and critical thinking. So far various individual methods have been applied in a bid to increase writing competence of learners in both schools and higher education. However, instructors and other stakeholders have realized that employing a single method is not effective in this process and, thus, they have suggested to integrate several approaches in order to encourage learners to be engaged in writing. We initially discuss these very concepts from theperspective of various scholars prior to presenting relevant approaches applied in this field. We conclude that in order to understand the whole matter of writing competence one should refer to the concepts of “writing” and “written speech” in the first place.

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