AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ ESSAY AT ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF UNIVERSITY PASIR PENGARAIAN

Authors

  • Eripuddin - Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan Universitas Pasir Pengaraian

Keywords:

Analysis, Essay, students

Abstract

This article discusses about the students’ problem in making an essay. The purpose of this article was to find out the students’ problem in making an essay.Object of this article was students’ essay that took by random sampling. The instrument used in this artcle were a test, interview and documentation. From the analysis it was found that the student was the difficulty to develop the ideas, lack of understanding in citing of experts’ opinion, and the lack of references. It can conclude that the basic problem of makin essay was the english department did not have a complete facilities to support the students’ skill.

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Published

2016-08-06