THE ABILITY OF THE FOURTH SEMESTER ENGLISH DEPARTMENT STUDENTS OF FKIP UR IN WRITING A PERSUASIVE ESSAY

Abstract. This research based on the students difficulty found in essay writing in English study program of FKIP UR.when she studied in her writing subject.The purpose of this research is to describe the student’s ability in writing persuasive essay and to find out the aspects of a persuasive essay that is the most difficult and the easiest for the students. The result of the research showed that, the most difficult aspects is grammar/spelling where the students got 59,49 which is the lowest score, and the easiest is capitalization/punctuation, which is 69,91 as the highest score. The students still get low score in Grammar / Spelling even though they have already studied about grammar. Moreover, from the data of each student scores, the writer found that the students got average to good, that is 64,81. So the ability of the fourth semester English Department student of FKIP UR in writing a persuasive essay still needs to improve