AN ANALYSIS OF THE STUDENTS’ PARAGRAPH COMPOSITIONPERFORMANCE
(1) Universitas Islam Indragiri
(2) Politeknik Negeri Bengkalis
(*) Corresponding Author
Abstract
An investigation ofcomposition performanceisimportant matter of contention toprobethat one may achievefurthercompelling and authenticending. Paragraph composition performance is one of the concerns.Thetarget of the contemporaryanalysisistoinspectthe extent to which the students’ paragraph composition performance. Therefore, survey study was conceived to achieve the purpose. The third semester students of English Study Program of FKIP – UNISI Tembilahan were determined as the shareholders. They were requiredto composetwo kinds ofparagraph; process paragraph and comparison/contrast paragraph. There are five evaluation criterions; format, punctuation and mechanics, contents, oganization, and sentence structure. Dealing the results ofdata analysis,itdisclosed that theirparagraph composition performance on each compositionelements was diverse. It could be justified from the datawhich sixparticipants (27.3%) worked outin the admirablegrade, nineof them (40.9%) were recognized in competent level, and sevenparticipants (31.8%) could achieve in sufficientcategory. As the final comment, it could be determined that their paragraph compositionperformance was in the sufficient to admirable level. Nevertheless, to gain better endings, more practice isbrought to their mind.
Abstract views : 422
| 
views : 15
References
Amri, Samsul. 2017. “An Inquiry on the Students’ Writing Competence of Analytical Exposition Text”. English Journal of Indragiri (EJI):Studies in Education, Linguistics, and Literature.Vol. 1, No.2. 2017
Asfah, Indrawaty. 2019. “An Analysis of Paragraph Writing Abilities of English Students at UniversitasNegeri Makassar”. ELT Worldwide Journal of English Language Teaching.Volume 6 Number 1 (2019).
https://ojs.unm.ac.id/ELT/article/view/9339/pdf
Brown, George. 2014. Argumentative Essays. Tutoring and Learning Centre. www.georgebrown.ca/tlc.
Gay, L.R, Geoferry E. Mills, and Peter Airasian. 2012. Educational Research: Competencies for analysis and Application (10th Ed). New Jersey: Pearson Education, Inc.
Kellogg, R,T& Bascom. A.R. 2007.Improving the Writing Skills of College Students.Psychonomic Bulletin & Review No. 14 (2), 237-242. Saint Louis University
Li, Daqi. 2000. “Effect of Story Mapping and Story Map Questions on the Story Writing Performance of Students with Learning Disabilities.”UnpublishedDissertation. Texas: Texas Tech University
Myles, Johanne. 2002. “Second Language Writing and Research: The Writing Process and Error Analysis in Student Texts”.TESL-English Journal, Vol.6, N.2. A-1.2002. http://tesl-ej.org/ej22/a1.html
Oshima, Alice and Ann Hogue. 2007. Introduction to Academic Writing (3rd Ed). New York : Pearson Education, Inc.
Prananda, YudiAgus. 2016. “Students’ Ability in Writing Paragraphs Using Structure of The Paragraph in Argumentative Essay By The Sixth Semester of English Study Program of Muhammadiyah University of Bengkulu”. Vol 3, No 1 (2016).Journal of Linguistics and Language Teaching.IAIN Bengkulu.
https://ejournal.iainbengkulu.ac.id/index.php/linguists/article/view/108/103
T. F. McLaughlin. (2014). “The effects of training students in paragraph writing”.https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232439314_The_effects_of_training_students_in_paragraph_writing
Zemach, Dorothy E., and Lisa A. Rumisek. 2005. Academic Writing from Paragraph to Essay. London: McMillan.
Zemach, Dorothy E., and Carlos Islam. 2005. Paragraph Writing from Sentence to P. London: McMillan.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.35314/inovish.v5i1.1386
Refbacks
- There are currently no refbacks.
