STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION TOWARD BASIC WRITING OUTCOMES AT THIRD SEMESTER

Abstract

The objective of the research was to find out the students' perception after learning Basic Writing material especially in learning Intensive and Paragraph Writing. The method of the research was descriptive qualitative and used semi-structured interview as an instrument of this research. The subject of the research was the third semester of English Department at Universitas Muhammadiyah Makassar. The researcher only selected 15 students out of 204 students of the third semester in English department as participants. The researcher used five questions and gave to the students in order to collect the data and retrieved information related to the interviewer's questions. The overall result of the research showed that most of students has positive views towards Basic Writing Material. The students could improve their students’ creativity in writing after learning intensive and paragraph writing especially in mind mapping, capitalization and simple sentence. However, almost students still had difficulty in understanding paragraph writing material especially in punctuation.