Paragraph organization and ideas development in paragraphs writing made by efl students
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This research aims to describe organizing paragraphs, developing an idea, and the use of linking phrases in paragraph writing made by the third year of the English Department at Nusantara PGRI Kediri University. This content analysis uses the qualitative approach in which the data were collected using documentation. Qualitative data was used to analyse the data from forty paragraphs. The steps of the data analysis are preparing, reading, and analysing data in detail by coding the data. The results of the data analysis showed that most of the students’ paragraph writing (twenty out of forty writing) had not complete paragraph organization. However, most students (twenty out of forty) were able to develop their ideas using descriptive and fact or opinion type of paragraphs. The type of linking phrases used by students was mainly in the form of cause-and-effect type and illustration type. In sum, direct exposure and paragraph organization exercises, and various linking phrases were essential to be practiced in EFL writing class.
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