Investigating students’ problems in Writing Chapter I of Research
Abstract
The research objectives are to find out (1) the students’ problems in writing chapter I of research (2) To find out the most difficult part in writing chapter I of Research. The research used qualitative method. The participants of this research is fourth semester of Elementary School Teacher Education (PGSD) of Education Innovation subject. The total of participants are 30 students. The results of data showed that (1) students’ have problems in Writing Chapter I including choosing a topic, paraphrasing, conducting a literature review, plagiarism, and format. (2) Students have mostly difficult part in paraphrasing . They mostly difficult in arranging their own idea with the original theory. It can be said that paraphrasing part as the biggest problem and they try to do some ways in writing a correct paraphrasing.
Keywords : research, writing research, problems of writing chapter I
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