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This study has been an attempt to investigate the Sudanese EFL learners´ composing competence from a discourse analysis perspective with the major objective of publicising the discourse culture in the writing research community in Sudan, following a series of writing research that centred on the analysis of linguistic competence in the students´ writing. Examination of written materials from three universities has revealed that learners´ overall writing quality is below average even though they were preparing to graduate with a B.A in English. The findings have also shown that learners´ writing is characterised by low grasp of textual cohesion, coherence and mechanics

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El-Sadig Ezza originally taught at the Unversity of Khartoum (Sudan) where he earned B.A (Honours), M.A and Ph.D in English. He has been seconded to King Saud University and later to Al- Majma´ah University (Saudi Arabia) since 2008.

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