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The Ability of English Department Students in Writing Cause and Effect Essay in Universitas Negeri Padang

Authors
Rika Rozalinda, Yenni Rozimela, Desvalini Anwar
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Rika Rozalinda
Available Online 11 March 2020.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.200306.067How to use a DOI?
Keywords
students’ ability, essay writing, cause and effect essay
Abstract

This research aims to find out the ability of the third year of English Department students in writing cause and effect essay in Universitas Negeri Padang. The type of this research is descriptive qualitative research. The source of the data is the cause and effect essays written by the students taken by random sampling. The instrument used in collecting the data is writing test. There are 13 cause and effect essays as the source of data. Next, the data is analyzed by using the indicator of a good cause and effect essay that is divided into three categories; the introductory paragraph, the body paragraphs, and the concluding paragraph. The research findings showed that the students’ ability in writing the introductory paragraph of cause and effect essay was considered good (84.62% of students belonged to Good category). Next, the students’ ability in writing the body paragraphs of the essay was considered poor (53.85% of the students belonged to Poor category). Finally, the students’ ability in writing the concluding paragraph of cause and effect essay was considered good (46.17% of the students belonged to Good category).

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on English Language and Teaching (ICOELT 2019)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
11 March 2020
ISBN
10.2991/assehr.k.200306.067
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.200306.067How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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