Students’ Ability in Writing Argumentative Essay at English Education Department of State Islamic University of Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau.

ABSTRACT Novita Putri Idola, (2022): Students’ Ability in Writing Argumentative Essay at English Education Department of State Islamic University of Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau. This research is conducted in order to analyse students’ writing abiltiy in argumentative essay at third semester at English Education Department of State Islamic University of Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau. Unfortunately writing still becomes a problem for the majority of students. There are some problems that relate to the English writing process. The students have low competency in writing their understanding about aspects of writing is not excellent. Their knowledge of grammar, diction, and cohesion and coherence are not used appropriately. Students’ sentences often contain a lot of grammatical errors. They have difficulties in taking words to the context when developing sentences, so they cannot compose a good paragraph. Some other obstacles in writing essay such as lack of vocabulary, hard to generate the idea, and incorrect placement of essay structures in every paragraph. The method of this research is a descriptive quantitative research. This research was conducted to find out how is students’ ability in writing argumentative essay at third semester of English Education Department State Islamic University Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau. Based on what has been discussed, presented and analysed, the researcher concluded that students’ ability in writing argumentative essay at third semester of English Education Department State Islamic University Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau is in good category