A Need Analysis in Academic Writing by Using Integrative-Based Approach: The Perspective of University Students

This article discusses the needs and interests of the
university students in Banten Indonesia for learning to write with
an integrative approach as an initial stage in the development of
academic writing textbooks. The participants in this study were
60 students in the first semester of the 2018/2019 academic year
who took an Indonesian language course. It was found that
students were familiar with writing activities. But the majority
were limited to non-academic genres such as writing poetry,
short stories, and writing personal blogs. Also, students have
almost the same problems in academic writing, both from
linguistic aspects, technical aspects, to issues of developing
writing ideas. Another thing that was found in this study was the
participation of lecturers who they expected in guiding and
providing input during academic writing learning