The Effectiveness of Concept Sentence Model toward Writing Skill of Persuasive Paragraph

Abstract

The aim of this study is to describe the students’ skill to write persuasive paragraph at the tenth class of SMA Muhammadiyah 2 Makassar. There are four characteristics of writing skill, namely 1) writing skill is a complex skill, 2) writing skill tends to the skill or practice, 3) it is skill mechanistic, and 4) mastery writing skill should through the gradual and accumulative activities. The observation was found that the writing skill is difficult to teach. The data collection techniques are the observation, questionnaire, pretest and treatment. The results showed that the students’ skill to write persuasive paragraph was in good category. Based on the results of 30 students, it revealed that 2 students or 6.6% did not get the minimum completeness criteria (KKM) score and 28 students or 93.33% reached the score or above KKM score (70), i.e., 80% is ≥ 75%, so it can be concluded that the students writing skill of persuasive paragraph has met the minimum completeness criteria in classical learning outcome for students who completed it were ≥ 75%. Therefore, it indicates that students are able to write the persuasive paragraph with the average score reaching above the average criteria.