THE ABILITY OF STUDENTS IN WRITING PROCESS ESSAY

Abstract

Writing assesing to measure the ability of the students in writing is needed to measure the ability of the students in writing. Brown (2007) has formulated standards that is used to asses students’ writing. It includes content, organization, grammar, vocabulary, and mechanism. Process essay is one kind of essay that was taught in a second year University National Pasim students. Although, this kind of essay tends to be considered light in writing compared to other types of essay, the researcher thought that some students may face problems in writing it. Therefore, to obtain valid data, a study to investigate the issue needs to be conducted. This research tried to study the ability of students in writing Process essay at Nasional Pasim University. The participants are twenty- eight psychology students who were taking English Writing class. The study shows the average of score is 78,2 which can be said that the ability of the students in writing process essay is moderate. The students seem to be strong in content but still need improvement in grammar, vocabulary and mechansm. The data indicates that writing English essay needs to be in line with the mastery of English language skills especially Grammar.