The unprecedented epidemic era poses challenges to the development of various fields

including EFL writing. Individual differences in EFL writing require much more concern in L2 writing researches. This study aims to review the literature on L2 writing in one SSCI journal JSLW and three (3) influential CSSCI journals from 2016 to 2020

with the purpose to have a general understanding of the themes

the methodology and the existing problems in this field in the most recent five years. The analysis indicates that the post-epidemic period requires more exploration into EFL learners’ cognitive and affective determinants in the computeraided writing platform.