Issues of academic writing skills development as integral component of communicative ESP competence

The article is focused on the didactic issues of teaching writing summaries of newspaper articles to economics students. The characteristics of a written text and their effect on teaching writing skills are considered. The organization of the summary writing through the stages of producing and editing the text supported by the interaction is justified and the necessity of the appropriate language scaffolding is emphasized. Product-oriented and process-oriented writing teaching are compared, editing process is also described.