摘要：The purpose of this study was to investigate whether planning in writing tasks affect the accuracy of the written narrations or not. To do so, 90 EFL full time male and female students all between the ages of 21 and 27 were pooled out of a population of 120 through giving them the SAT practice test. They were divided into three groups of thirty. All of the groups were assigned the same written task which was a narration based on six-picture series. However, the conditions of task implementation differed. The no-planning group was served as the control group, while the within-task planning and strategic planning groups were considered as experimental groups. The accuracy was measured by counting the number of error-free clauses and accurately used verbs. The result of the study showed that the strategic planning group outperformed the other groups.
