Writing can be divided into sub-skills like descriptive, narrative and expository writing skills (Wilcox, 2002). The style of what is written will automatically be affected by the status of the addressee, age, profession and relationship with the writer.
Hywel (2003) bifurcated the sub-skills of writing such as descriptive skill (description of people, places and things), narrative skill (narrating stories, incidents, events with proper sequence in chronological order) and expository skill (writing with the purpose to justify, explain, define, classify, compare and contrast).
English is taught as a compulsory subject from class one up to graduation level in Pakistan. English is not the mother tongue of Pakistani students. It is a second language for them. That’s why they feel it difficult to learn. The majority of the students think are handicapped and feel an inferiority complex due to the lack of competency in the subject of English. Acquiring facility in English gaining popularity in Pakistan in all walks of life day by day and has become a status symbol and key to success. Therefore, this study is an attempt to evaluate the Pakistani students’ exposure in writing subskills.