The
study of English aids students in the quest for more knowledge from many
international sources. There are two media for language communication:
1. receiving the
message, i.e., reading and
listening,
2. and sending the message, i.e., speaking
and writing.
To
give clear information in communication, writing and the use of a standard
format for writing are needed. So, in the fourth semester student for the year
Muhammadiyah University of Bengkulu, the students were required to write an
opinion paragraph on medical ethics based on a reading passage chosen from the
Internet. Every student would receive 30 marks as part of the semester’s course
work if they wrote it regardless of the quality of their writing. However, they
had not been trained to construct a well-organized paragraph. The researchers
realized that it is important
to improve students’ skills
in writing standard paragraphs
because it is an important tool in
their profession and for further education. Therefore, we
performed a study to evaluate the writing skills of these first-year medical
students in writing a paragraph in English and identified their errors in order
to develop guidelines for correction and improvement of their writing skills.
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