The correlation between punctuations mastery towards writing descriptive paragraph at grade xi SMK Negeri 1 Sipirok

Siregar, Sopiah (2012) The correlation between punctuations mastery towards writing descriptive paragraph at grade xi SMK Negeri 1 Sipirok. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

The most students at SMK Negeri 1 Sipirok were still confuse to write their ideas in writing from, especially in writing descriptive paragraph. The researcher found this problem from their difficulties in grammar, especially use right punctuations. The aim of the research was to know the correlation between punctuations mastery towards writing descriptive paragraph. The population of the research was 336 students at grade XI SMK Negeri 1 Sipirok. The sample of the research was 84 studens. The sample got by using random sampling. The research was Quantitative method and types of the research was a correlation research and field research. In collecting the data, the researcher used test as an instrument. The researcher used product moment formula for analyzing the data. The hypothesis of the research was ”there is a correlation between punctuations mastery towards writing descriptive pragraph at grade XI SMK Negeri 1 Sipirok”. After calculating the data, the researcher got that rxy is higher than rtabel. The result of rxy is 0.742 and rtabel is 0.220 in 5% significant and 0.286 in 1% significant. So, it is categorized high correlation. Finally, hypothesis was accepted. Based on the result above, there is significant correlation between punctuations mastery towards writing descriptive paragraph at grade XI SMK Negeri 1 Sipirok.

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