STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC WRITING SKILLS OF INDONESIAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE EDUCATION AT BATURAJA UNIVERSITY

Abstract

The objective of this research was to: (a) describe the mastery of students’ academic writing skill of Indonesian Language and Literature Education Study Program at Universitas Baturaja; (b) identify obstacles of the students’ academic writing activities; and (c) provide solutions to overcome the students’ problems in academic writing. The design of this study was qualitative method by gathering the data from 36 students in their third semester. The data collection was conducted by collecting the results of students’ written test and the interview. Data analysis technique used in this research was descriptive statistic, by assessing the results of student writing tests based on the assessment rubric that has been prepared, the assessment results were then grouped in the benchmark assessment and elaborated in accordance with each component of the assessment. The results showed that seven students had the ability to write scientific articles on good category (21%),4 people as sufficient category (12%), 11 people in the category of less (33%) and 11 people were in the least category (33%).