Abstract
This study was conducted to describe students’ initial writing proficiency prior to the start of the even semester writing program. The primary focus from conducting this was to gather comprehensible basic information from the students through diagnostic test held in the first meeting. Sample of this study was fourty second semester students in the Faculty of Language Sultan Agung Islamic University. After the completion of the test, the result of which would be evaluated and described in detail in number by referring to the students’ learning components to provide better understanding about students’ current writing proficiencies in the future learning materials. Last but not least, the most important, this was an early steppingstone for further researches and became an attempt to give picture that benefited the researcher from designing the teaching material as well as the teaching models for success of his teaching.
Keywords: diagnostic test, writing ability, second semester students, lesson planning