Abstract:
This research deals with The Students’ Ability in Writing Persuasive Essay.
It was aimed to investigate the students’ ability in writing persuasive essay. This
research was carried out by using quantitative method. The instrument to collect
the data was written test. The population was at the semester IV students of
University Muhammadiyah of North Sumatera. The total number of semester IV
students were 163. The samples that had been tested were 70 students. The
Sample of this research was taken by of using cluster random sampling technique.
The technique of analyzing data was strived to investigate the students’ ability in
writing persuasive essay in english. This research was descriptive analyzed. Based
on the result of this research, it can be concluded that several phenomena found
related to this topic of research, the phenomena are most of the students are not
accustomed to writing an essay, especially persuasive essay, most of the students
are unwilling to make a persuasive essay, most of the students do not know what
persuasive essay is about, most of the students find difficulty to make a persuasive
essay. Based on the data analysis, the coclusion can be drawn the finding of the
research showed the average of the students score in each components of writing
mastery are categorize into fair to poor. It means, the students’ ability in writing
persuasive essay at the semester IV of University Muhammadiyah of North
Sumatera categorized less (fair to poor)
