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Academic writing is worthwhile for university students in fostering their academic success and gaining their future employment. It is an essential skill that university students should master, predominantly in 4.0 era, when the competition is getting tighter. However, writing has always been problematic even for todays college students who also known as millennials. This study aimed to explore three components: 1) Millennial students perspective on academic writing, 2) The major academic writing difficulties encountered by millennial students, and 3) The main factors that caused the difficulties. Data were collected by using questionnaire with open-ended questions through 60 English Department students. The results indicated that 50% of participants found academic writing difficult with only 18% of them got A for their academic writing score. The major problems are they have difficulties in expressing other writers idea into their own words, organizing the text coherently, and finding a relevant references for their writing. The main factors that caused the problem is they did not get detailed explanation about academic writing considerations in classroom, which lead them to learn from the internet. Nevertheless, internet can be both beneficial and harmful for the participants. Since they can find many sources in the internet, it confused them to choose the most appropriate references for their writing, in which they sometimes ended up with just copying without filtering the sources. Therefore, this study suggests lecturers to provide students with guidance in identifying relevant sources and witnessing more practices to the students.