AN INVESTIGATION OF WRITING DIFFICULTIES AND WRITING PROCESS IN ARABIC WRITING

Abstract

Writing is the most difficult skills compares to others. An unclear message effect mis-transferring knowledge occurs or even the info transferring does not happen. This situation happens to all languages also, in Arabic language. Hence, this qualitative research works to investigate the relation between writing difficulties and the writing process in Arabic writing. This survey contains the 5 scale-likes questions and is divided to four sections, include demographic, writing difficulties perception, pre-writing persuades, while-writing persuades and reviewing persuades. It was answered by 109 respondents. The study indicates that the difficulties experienced by students are moderate. This is reflected in their efforts to ease the essay writing process, such as referring to writing models from experts (mean 4.0), understanding the assignment requirements (mean 3.0), and finding appropriate words when unsure (mean 3.8), despite having moderate confidence in their use of Arabic vocabulary and grammar (mean 3.0). They also make minor edits to sentence structure and vocabulary during the revision stage (mean 3.4). However, the moderate level of difficulty suggests that challenges still persist. Some students only plan their writing mentally (mean 3.1) and tend to write without any planning or outlining (mean 2.6). Negative outcomes are evident when some students abandon completed drafts to write new ones (mean 3.0) and submit assignments without reviewing them (mean 1.9). Thus, unstructured approaches contribute to the difficulties faced by students, leading to a negative perception and struggle in Arabic writing.