Starting from the assumption that, in the age of linguistic globalization, writing is an invaluable tool in business communication in a great variety of contexts, the present paper aims at looking into ways of enhancing economics undergraduates’ writing skills in English, with a view to improving their overall communication skills. The paper is divided into three parts: the first part introduces the peculiarities of writing in a foreign language in general and of commercial correspondence in particular; next, emphasis is given to theories regarding the way writing should be taught (the textual, genre and process approaches); the last part presents the characteristics of a writing course currently piloted on undergraduate students of the Faculty of Economic Sciences, “Transilvania” University of Brasov, as well as some early feedback from students.