AN ANALYSIS ON STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING EFFECTIVE PARAGRAPH TO THE THIRD YEAR STUDENTS OF STKIP MUHAMMADIYAH ACEH BARAT DAYA

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This research deals with an Analisis on Students’ Ability in Writing Effective Paragraph to the Third year Students of STKIP Muhammadyah Aceh Barat Daya.. The purpose of conducting this research was to know students’ ability in writing effective paragraph. It was a qualitative research that was conducted for the third year students of English education department of STKIP Muhammadiyah Aceh Barat Daya. The students were taken as the population of this research, and third year students (unit II) consisting of 20 students were taken as the sample. The test was used as an instrument of data collection. The findings of this study showed that the students’ ability in writing effective paragraph was in the poor category since the mean score obtained by students was 47.25. The other findings found that students’ ability in writing effective paragraph by considering to four criterions of effective paragraph was also still poor, it showed from the average of students’ score that the researcher counted. Based on the result of the research, it can be suggested that the students should study harder in writing the effective paragraph related to the five aspects of topic sentence, supporting sentence, unity and coherence. The teacher should also focus on teaching the students writing paragraph to give more practices and exercises about aspect of the criteria for an effective paragraph that covers topic sentence, support sentence, unity and coherence.