eprintid: 9129
rev_number: 7
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type: thesis
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Dian, Rachmania
creators_NPM: 0311 11 104
contributors_name: Atti, Herawati
contributors_name: Istiqlaliah, Nurul Hidayati
contributors_NIDN: 0029016801
contributors_NIDN: 0415128202
corp_creators: Universitas Pakuan
corp_creators: Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan
corp_creators: pendidikan Bahasa Inggris
title: STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN WRITING CONCLUSION OF ESSAY
(A study conducted to fourth semester students of English Education Study
Program Pakuan University)
ispublished: pub
divisions: Pro_PBEN
full_text_status: public
abstract: i
ABSTRACT
There are four skills in learning English that should be mastered to make
learning process successful. One of them is writing. Writing is an activity to
express thoughts and feelings in a written form and serves as a communication
tool indirectly. It means students need time to think of ideas to be written in order
to express their thought in a written form. This study is aimed to find out the
students’ difficulties in writing conclusion of an essay. In conducting this
research, the writer applies descriptive method and to gain the data, she took
students’ work as documents, distributed questionnaires and conducted an
interview. The research was conducted in fourth semester students of English
Education Study Program, Pakuan University. The writer uses purposive sampling
technique. She chooses one class and takes six students consisting of students who
have lowest score of writing major. After analyzing the data, questionnaire and
interview, the writer found that students still find it difficult to write a conclusion
of an essay. Eleven students (52.4%) have a difficulty in psychological aspect.
Eighteen students (85.7%) have a difficulty in cognitive aspect and nineteen
students (90.5%) have a difficulty in linguistic aspect. The common difficulties
that faced by students when they write a conclusion of an essay are timetable,
structure usage, restating the thesis statement, vocabularies, essay organization
and connecting one sentence to the other sentences.
Keywords: Students’ Difficulties, Essay, Conclusion Paragraph.
date: 2018-06
date_type: published
institution: Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan
department: Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris
thesis_type: Skripsi
thesis_name: Sarjana
citation:   Dian, Rachmania  (2018) STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN WRITING CONCLUSION OF ESSAY (A study conducted to fourth semester students of English Education Study Program Pakuan University).  Skripsi thesis, Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan.   
document_url: http://eprints.unpak.ac.id/9129/1/Skripsi%20Dian%20Rachmania%20031111104.pdf