| dc.description.abstract | This research was a descriptive study about the seventh grade students’ writing
achievement and their difficulties in descriptive paragraph at SMPN 3 Jember in
2014/2015 academic year. It was designed to answer the research problem on the
seventh grade students’ writing achievement. This results from the fact that the result
of the preliminary study in 2015 showed that the seventh grade students of SMPN 3
Jember experienced difficulties in their writing. Eventhough the average score was
relatively good, they still experienced difficulties in writing descriptive paragraph
related to mechanics, vocabulary and mostly grammar.
The students’ writing achievement was classified into five aspects. They were
mechanics, content, grammar, vocabulary and organization. The students’ writing
descriptive paragraph was assessed by using an analytical scoring rubric. All those
scores were analyzed by using the percentage formula to get the students’ percentage
in writing descriptive paragraph. The percentage will be used to classify the students’
ability in writing descriptive paragraph whether it was A, A-, B+, B, B- and so forth.
The result of the analyses of 31 students’ writing scores in class 7B at SMPN 3
Jember it was found that 4 students or (13%) got A, 13 students or (42%) got A-, 7
students or ( 23%) got B+, 5 students or (16%) got B and 2 students or (6%) got B-.
There were no students got below B-. It means that nearly half of the students got the
score between 87,75 to 96 (3,51 – 3,84). Meanwhile, in the aspect of mechanics, 5
students or (3%) got A, 9 students or (6%) got A-, 7 students or (5%) got B+, 1 student or (0,6%) got B, 7 students or (5%) got B-, 1 student or (0,6%) got C+ and 1
student or (0,6%) got C. In the aspect of content, 24 students or (15%) got A, 6
students or (4%) got A- and 1 student or (0,6%) got below B+. In the aspect of
grammar, 3 students or (2%) got A, 7 students or (5%) got A-, 9 students or (6%) got
B+, 2 students or (1%) got B, 4 students or (3%) got B-, 3 students or (2%) got C+, 2
students or (1%) got C and 1 student or (0,6%) got D+. In the aspect of vocabulary, 9
students or (6%) got A, 6 students or (4%) got A-, 8 students or (5%) got B+, 3
students or (2%) got B, 1 student or (0,6%) got B-, 3 students or (2%) got C+ and
only 1 student or (0,6%) got D+. The last, in the aspect of organization, 20 students or
(13%) got A, 9 students or (6%) got A-, 1 Student or (0,6%) got B+ and 1 student or
(0,6%) got B.
Based on those data, it can be concluded that the seventh grade students’
writing achievement in descriptive paragraph at SMPN 3 Jember in the 2014/2015
was classified as “B+” category or 87,24. Meanwhile, the students difficulties mostly
occured in grammar, which was classified as “B” category with the average score
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