Abstract
AbstractThis research attempts to find out the writing competence of college students, detect the cause of the problems and propose some suggestion to deal with the problem. The population of this research is the second Semester students of English Education Department UNU Purwokerto. Since the number of population is less than 100 students the writer took them all as sample. It means that the number of sample is the same as the number of the population that is 39 students. The method of this research was descriptive. This research was conducted on May 2018. The instrument used in this research is a test. The computation of the data to find out writing competence uses percentage formula. After the data has been analysed, the data showed that the writing competence is 62.64%, it means that the writing competence of the second semester students of English Education Department UNU Purwokerto is good. The most problems of the students are grammatical. Those are the pattern of tenses, addition, and misformation.Key words: writing, competence, descriptive, college students, grammatical problems
Highlights
English is an International langugae which is taught as a foreign language in Indonesia
The purpose of the research are to find out the writing competence of college students, detect the cause of the problems and propose some suggestion to deal with the problem
Having finished discussing the subject concerning the writing competence, in this chapter the writer draws some conclusion in the hope that the reader of this article can clearly obtain more knowledge about the writing competence
Summary
English is an International langugae which is taught as a foreign language in Indonesia. According to Ramelan, the more cultivated and more technologically advanced man, the more use he will make of the written language It means that writing plays a very important role in a modern city. The research was carried out at University Nahdlatul Ulama of Purwokerto to the second semester students In this case the writer uses a test to measure the writing competence of Students. The writer would like to mention the kind of errors or mistakes that was done by students follows: Grammatical fact. Many students got 3 in doing writing composition and punctuation is one of common mistakes made by the students for example: Capital letter. In writing sentence some students lack of subject predicate or object It means that their sentences are incomplete, for example: No Wrong Sentence Correct Sentence
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