Abstract

Abstract: A paragraph is a subject that consists of developed related statements by a writer. In writing a paragraph the students make sure their paragraph is in correct format. This study describes students’ writing development in a paragraph and the impact of self-correction. The participants of the study were the 15 students in basic writing class second semester at English Education Department. This study was a quantitative research and used written test. The tests implemented were pre-test and post-test after 5 meetings treatment. In the treatment the students gave feedback about the paragraph, punctuation, capitalization, simple sentence, compound sentence, complex sentence, and compound complex sentence. The results showed that self-correction benefited students’ writing skill and there was a development in their writing skill. This study suggested that self-correction was an effective method and shown to be the best method for student as a feedback.

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