An Analysis Of English Language Prewriting Strategies Used By Students In Writing Essay In Universitas Islam Riau

Haudina, Nadia (2020) An Analysis Of English Language Prewriting Strategies Used By Students In Writing Essay In Universitas Islam Riau. Other thesis, Universitas Islam Riau.

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Keyword : Prewriting, Prewriting Strategies, Writing Essay The objective of the research is to know what strategy that students’ used in prewriting step in writing essay and to know the dominant strategy that students’ used in writing essay to transfer an idea. The research design of this study was descriptive research. The participant of this research was B class in semester 4 year 2017 English Department in Universitas Islam Riau. The sample of this research was used cluster sampling and there were 38 students as the sample. The instruments of the research were questionnaire. There were contain listing 10 questions, free writing 9 questions, clustering 9 questions, looping 7 questions, journal’s questions 7 questions, and cubing 11 questions. The data were analyzed by categorize the data based on indicators, describe the data and make a conclusion. From the results, 8 students used listing as their strategy in writing essay, 6 students used freewriting as their strategy, 8 students used looping, 1 student used clustering as their strategy, 13 students used journal’s questions as their strategy, and 2 students used cubing as their strategy in writing essay. Then, the dominant strategy that students used in prewriting was journal’s questions (34,2%), which is students found the information of the topic to get an outline by using 5W + 1H.

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