Students’ Writing Ability on Descriptive Text: An Analysis of Generic Structure-Based

Abstract

The study aims to describe students writing ability in descriptive text based on a generic structure for seventh-grade students. Finding out how well understudies can write descriptive content and whether they are currently well-organized are the two main objectives of this study. This study employed a qualitative research method. The participants were the seventh-grade students of SMP Muhammadiyah Purworejo. There are twenty-five students in all, eleven are female and fourteen are male. This study uses students’ writing descriptive text work as its instrument to find students' level of understanding of its generic structure. Furthermore, it also aims to find the category of students writing ability in descriptive text. The result of the study was that 12 students (48%) have a low level of understanding of writing descriptive text based on its generic structure. Then, the students' descriptive text writing skills categorized as good is 10 students (40%) and fair is 15 students (60%). From the mean score that is 65, it can be concluded that the students have a poor grasp of the generic structure of descriptive text, and they have fair category in writing descriptive text.