Distinctive Features among Students’ Critical Thinking Skills through Paragraph Writing

Abstract

The study disscussed about the distinctive features among male and female students’ critical thinking ability that would then be discovered through paragraph writing. The objectives of this study were to: (1) discover the distinctive features among male and female students’s critical thinking ability, and (2) observe how paragraph writing can determine differences in male and female students’ critical thinking ability. This study applied a descriptive-qualitative method to analyze the data. The source of the data was obtained from the subject Essay Writing test results of undergraduate students of the 6th semester in the English Department Faculty of Teacher Training and Education University of Muhammadiyah Sumatra Utara, in the academic year of 2019/2020. The technique in analyzing the data was using the theory of Sugiyono (2016), that is to reduce, display, and conclude the data. There were then found out what differs male and female students’ critical thinking skills through what they wrote on the test.