ABSTRACT
Composing a text in an L2 is a challenge that reveals the multiplicity of L2 adult students' needs. Those students are learners facing the needs and problems related to using L2 to express their ideas, and they are also composers trying to produce readable texts. As adults, these learners are often conscious of their predicament. They are sensitive to their need as composers for a good opening sentence, an interesting conclusion, and connectors that resemble those used by native speakers, as well as to their shortcomings in dealing with L2's grammatical, morphological, and syntactic systems.
