In terms of Thai Universities preparing for ASEAN 2015 and beyond, the ab' ity tocommunicate ideas and information effectively through the global digital network is crucialy dependent on good writing skills in English. Writing has been identified as one of theessential skills in the world that is more than ever driven by text and numerical data. As aresult there is an active interest today in new theoretical approaches to the study of writtentexts as well as approaches to the teaching of second language writing that incorporatecurrent theory and research findings