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This study analyzed the writing skills in English expository text. There are five indicators in writing expository text: content, organization, grammar, vocabulary, and mechanics. This study aimed to investigate the students' writing skill on expository text related to the five indicators of English expositorytext and investigated the difficulties in writing English expository text. This research study used a descriptive quantitative research design. The participants were first semester students at English Literature Study Program of Universitas Trunojoyo Madura. The data collected from students' writing expository text test and analyzed by using Heaton’s theory. The result data analysis showed that: 1) 47% of students were average to good in writing content, 2) 51% of students were average to good in writing organization, 3) 31% of students were average to good in using grammar, 4) 36% of students were very good to excellent in using vocabulary, 5) 44% of students were very good to excellent in writing mechanics. This research found some difficulties the students when writing expository text. First, students cannot develop their ideas. Second, students are unable to develop their idea based on topic that they have to explain in expository text. Third, students struggle with grammatical structure of expository text. That means, they have to more understand about the simple present tense. Fourth, they were difficult to select appropriate vocabulary when writing expository text. The last, they miss-spelt words and were unsure of proper punctuation that was causing an error of mechanics.    

Activities in improving literacy of scientific article writing by the KIR of SMAN 5 Bandar Lampung aims to encourage students in scientific article writing activities towards journal publications which so far have not been carried out, because writing skills are not obtained naturally through the process of practicing and continuing to learn. The training methods carried out include questionnaires, brainstorming, introduction of several writing tools, systematic deepening of writing good scientific articles, and evaluation. The result of this activity is an increase in the understanding and motivation of students and coaches about the importance of publishing articles that have a good impact on themselves, school and community. So three articles that are ready to be written and published in journals, a coaching clinic series that is needed is assistance to encourage the quantity and improve the quality of writing by direct practice.  

Frontloading adalah strategi yang memungkinkan siswa untuk menstimulasi pengetahuan mereka sebelum membaca dan dilakukan secara berkelompok. Selanjutnya, penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memecahkan masalah siswa dalam penguasaan kosakata yang rendah dengan menggunakan strategi Frontloading. Responden penelitian ini adalah siswa kelas VIII.7 SMP Negeri 15 Pekanbaru yang terdiri dari 36 siswa. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah penelitian tindakan kelas (PTK) dan peneliti menggunakan format KWL yang dimodifikasi untuk menerapkan strategi ini. Peneliti menggunakan tes untuk mengumpulkan data kualitatif dan juga menggunakan daftar cek observasi, catatan lapangan, dan wawancara untuk mengumpulkan data kuantitatif. Hasilnya, peneliti menemukan beberapa peningkatan setelah perlakuan pada Siklus 1 dilakukan dan sebagian besar siswa lulus passing grade. Selain itu, faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi penguasaan kosakata siswa adalah penerapan strategi frontloading itu sendiri, penggunaan kamus sebagai media, dan minat siswa dalam kegiatan kelompok. Mengacu pada hasil ini, para peneliti menyimpulkan bahwa strategi frontloading dapat meningkatkan kelancaran kosakata siswa dalam teks deskriptif. Selain itu, strategi frontloading memudahkan siswa untuk memahami teks dan meningkatkan kosakata mereka.

The context of this research is that writing skills are very important for learning, because they can train students to think, channel their desires, emotions, and express their ideas.. The use of documentary film media tells true stories about natural events in accordance with explanatory text material that tells about natural or social phenomena that can occur, such as about water, plastic which is the source of human life. The objective of this research, the researcher wants to know is there any effect of documentary film media on the writing skill of the fifth grade students of Sedatigede II Elementary School. While the research methodology used is quantitative by using a Quasi-Experimental design in the form of Nonequivalent Control Group Design. The research subjects were class V A as the experimental class and class V C as the control class at SDN Sedatigede II Sidoarjo with a total of 35 students. The data collection method used is an assessment in the form of a performance test with the task of writing an explanatory text. Using statistical analysis methods, the formulas used are normality test, homogeneity test and T-test. The test before and after using the media with the SPSS version 22 application were used. The results of this study were based on the results of the independent sample test data analysis, which showed the value of sig < 0.05, namely sig. (2-tailed) of 0.000. From these results, it was concluded that there was an effect of documentary film media on students' writing skills in the explanatory text material of fifth grade students of Sedatigede II Elementary School. This is reinforced by the significant difference in skill test scores in the experimental and control groups before and after treatment.

Papers are one of the daily tasks for students. There are still many student papers that are not in accordance with the EYD or vocabulary in the KBBI. This research focuses on how the form of errors in writing capital letters, writing hyphens, punctuation marks, and standard language in scientific papers (papers) of students, especially the IAIN Takengon KPI Study Program. This study aims for KPI (Islamic Broadcasting Communication) undergraduate students to be trained in good and correct writing skills in accordance with spelling rules. The approach used in this research is qualitative with descriptive method. The results of the research conducted, the researcher found spelling errors in the contents of the paper, namely: (1) there were 15 capital letter writing errors, (2) there were 20 mistakes in the location of conjunctions, (3) there were 10 non-standard language errors, (4) writing errors there are 20 punctuation marks (colons, commas, quotation marks, punctuation marks).