AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN WRITING ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAYS AT THE SIXTH SEMESTER OF ENGLISH EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT IN PGRI UNIVERSITY OF BANYUWANGI
Abstract
This research is analysis research on students’ difficulties in writing argumentative essays at the Sixth Semester of English Educational Department in PGRI University of Banyuwangi. The aims of this research was to find out the dominant of writing difficulties of the students’ difficultiesin writing argumentative essays on cognitive problems by Byrne (1988) and their causes by Graham and Harris in Glynn note this (2006). Using a purposive sample, students in the sixth-semester of the 2019/2020 academic year were selected as samples in this study. This study used a qualitative descriptive method. The instruments used in this research were questionnaires. In carrying out the research, researchers used an online platform to obtain instrument. The results showed that the dominant in writing difficulties of students’ difficulties in writing argumentative essays are content problems. This was evidenced by the finding of difficulties in students’ argumentative essay categorized by Guttman scale. Content problems get very bad category, which means there are only 2 out of 12 the sixth semester English education students who have good ability on content problems in writing argumentative essays. The causes of students’ difficulties in writing argumentative essays on cognitive problems at the sixth semester of English educational department in PGRI University of Banyuwangi are the lack of knowledge, lack of an effective strategy, and lack of proficiency. Based on the results above, it was concluded that the sixth semester students of English Educational Department in PGRI University of Banyuwangi has difficulties in writing argumentative essays on cognitive problems.
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