Students’ Ability in Writing Descriptive Text: A Research at Tenth Grade Students of SMAN 2 Lubuk Sikaping

Latifah, Mufidatul (2023) Students’ Ability in Writing Descriptive Text: A Research at Tenth Grade Students of SMAN 2 Lubuk Sikaping. Skripsi thesis, Universitas Negeri Padang.

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Abstract

The aim of this research is to analyze the ability of the tenth grade students to write Topic Sentence and Supporting Details of descriptive text at SMA N 2 Lubuk Sikaping. This study has a descriptive quantitative research design. A writing test was required to a sample of 64 students across different classes of tenth-grade students of SMAN 2 Lubuk Sikaping. This data collection method provided quantitative data. The source of this data is primary, as it is gathered directly from the participants by the researcher. The researcher uses proportional random sampling which take a half of the population to be the sample of the data. The categories of the score are Excellent (3.26 – 4), Good (2.51 – 3.25), Fair (1.76 – 2.50) and Poor (1 – 1.75). The researcher analyzes the data by checking the writing test of the students then put them into the category. The result of this research is that the students’ ability in writing Topic Sentence is categorized as “Fair” with the mean was 2,45. Then, the category of the students’ ability in writing Supporting Details is categorized as “Fair” with the mean was 2,23

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