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This study aimed to determine the writing needs of Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Tarbiyah Muhammadiyah, Berau East Kalimantan and development and validation of an active, creative and innovative based instructional material in teaching writing. specifically, it sought answers to the following questions; 1) what are the identified writing needs of the first year college students?., 2) what instructional writing material could be develop based from the identified writing needs?., 3) is the prepared instructional material curricularly valid?., 4) what is the result of the pretest and post test between the experimental and control groups using the validated material?., 5) is there any significant difference the pretest and post test result of the experimental and control groups?., 6) what are the recommendations of the evaluators for the enrichment of the researcher output? the researcher employed the mixed multiple method in research and development, whereas the research is ADDIE (analyze, design, implement, and evaluate). the main instruments used in assessing the students need and ACI based instructional material is questionnaire. in assessing the implementation effect of ACI based instructional material the researcher used pretest and post test, and also supported by observation and interview. The statistical tools used in analyzing the data in this study were frequency count, ranking, mean, weighted mean, and T test. the finding is the basic guide to writing as the product constructed as the answer in developing the writing skill of the first year college students at STIT Muhammadiyah.