Students’ Ability in Writing Paragraph Components and Their Perceptions on Academic Essay as Reflected in the Students’ Thesis

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10.2991/assehr.k.200819.045How to use a DOI?

Keywords

academic writing, paragraph components, perceptions

Abstract

The ability to write academic essays is one of the learning outcomes that have to be achieved by the graduates of English Language Education Program (ELEP), in Universities in Indonesia. This ability will be helpful for helping the students to complete their undergraduate thesis. Preliminary observation shows challenges faced by the students in writing academic essay. Given that they have learnt all courses of academic writing, there is an assumption that they should have achieved an expected level of writing ability. However, some facts show the opposite. Thus, this study intends to obtain a picture of their ability by analyzing these recent graduates’ academic essays, particularly the components of paragraphs (coherence, cohesion, unity) found in their undergraduate thesis. The current study also aims to find out the graduates’ perceptions of academic essay. Using descriptive research, the data will be collected through document analysis and questionnaires.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Trisna Yolanda
AU  - Sitti Fatimah
AU  - Desvalini Anwar
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/08/19
TI  - Students’ Ability in Writing Paragraph Components and Their Perceptions on Academic Essay as Reflected in the Students’ Thesis
BT  - Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Languages and Arts (ICLA-2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 229
EP  - 232
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200819.045
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200819.045
ID  - Yolanda2020
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