Аннотация:The aim of the article is to present the way of developing English academic writing competence of
students in Universities by means of ICT. The author analyzes the studies on the problem of teaching
the academic writing in universities; investigates the traditional and innovative ways, methods and
means of the competence developing of the academic writing in a foreign language. The structural
components of the competence (linguistic, pragmatic, sociolinguistic and socio-cultural) are
characterized in this paper. One of the innovative ways to improve the skills of academic writing is to
use ICT (information and communication technologies) and also a variety of other learning tools in
the educational process are described. The obtained data emphasizes the importance of ICT in
providing professionally oriented written interaction of students. The author has developed and
scientifically substantiated the methodological system for the competence developing of the students
the skills of academic writing in a foreign language by means of ICT. The examples of technical and
non-technical means of education are offered. Established diagnostic tools have proved the
effectiveness of the developed methodological system.