The Students’ Ability in Writing Persuasive Essay

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)