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EFL STUDENTS? WRITING STRATEGIES IN ENGLISH ACADEMIC WRITING AT UNIVERSITAS PGRI RONGGOLAWE (UNIROW) TUBAN

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SETIYOWATI, N.T, 2018 : EFL Students? Writing Strategies In Academic Writing At Universitas PGRI Ronggolawe (Unirow) Tuban
Advisor : Dra. Christina ITP, M.Pd
Keywords : Writing, Writing Strategies, Academic Writing.

The background of this research is based on the phenomenon that writing may be considered as the most difficult and complex skill among the four language skills of learning English as a foreign language. One of the factors that makes people feel difficult to write is they do not know what strategies should be applied in writing. Therefore, students? writing strategy is very influential in producing a writing.
The problem of this study are: (1) What are the writing strategies used by EFL students in academic writing at UNIROW?, (2) What are the students? reasons in applying the strategies?
The purposes of this study are to identify the writing strategies used by EFL students in academic writing at UNIROW, To describe the students? reasons in applying the strategies.
The research design of this study was descriptive qualitative research. The subject of this study consist of16 students who are in the eighth semester of 2017-2018 academic year of English Language Education Program at Universitas PGRI Ronggolawe (UNIROW) Tuban. The source of data are the writing strategies used by EFL students in academic writing at UNIROW and the students? reasons in applying the strategies. The researcher used two techniques, there are questionnaire and interview techniques. The data were analyzed qualitatively.
The result of the study shows there were 17 strategies often used by the student (high-level of usage) which are 2 strategies in planning, 10 strategies in execution, and 5 strategies in revision. It can be concluded that the students? writing strategies are in medium-level of usage.The students usedthe writing strategies with 9 reasons; 3 reasons for the planning, 3 reasons for the execution, and 3 reasons for the revision.The conclusion is that students use the writing strategies to produce a good writing.

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00026-2018-BING

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Tuban : Unirow., 2018

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