Abstract:
Beginners are still reported to have a problem in academic writing despite some intervention.
The current study was specifically done to describe the University Beginners' baseline
proficiency and to evaluate the effectiveness of writing intervention for university beginners.
The beginners in Bachelor of Arts in Cooperative, Management and Accounting at Kizumbi
Teaching Centre (KTC) were used as the unit of analysis. This is a case study which was used
in evaluative and descriptive approaches to achieve its objectives. Data were collected using
test instrument, observation and interviews. Both descriptive statistical analysis and two pared
samples t-test analysis were used to analyse the data. The findings showed that university
beginners at KTC had only elementary level of writing proficiency on the start of
communication skills' intervention. Moreover, after running the two pared samplestest analysis
the findings showed that the intervention had a little effect on students' writing skills
development.
