Writing Skill Mastery of the Non-language Department Lecturers in Bina Nusantara University

Endang Ernawati, Chandra K. Wiharja, Rahmi Yulia Ningsih

2018

Abstract

The research was conducted to find out the writing skill mastery of Bina Nusantara lecturers who wrote Bahasa Indonesia articles to be published in Binus in house journals. The writing skill mastery included the correctness of diction, sentence, and paragraph in the article. The research applied a qualitative method by analyzing 10 articles of non-English departments lecturers that were chosen by purposive sampling methods. The instruments were three paragraphs in the Introduction part and then were analyzed based on their diction, sentence, and paragraphs. The diction analysis shows that from 20 paragraphs analyzed there are 26 standard words (76%) and 8 non-standard words (48%). The sentence analysis shows that of the 69 sentences, there are 27 effective sentences (39%) and 42 ineffective sentences (61%). The sentence ineffectiveness was resulted from the sentence that does not meet the six terms of the effective sentence. The results of paragraph analysis show that from 13 paragraphs analyzed there are 3 paragraphs (23%) that have correct cohesion, while 10 sentences (77%) do not meet the cohesion within a paragraph. It is recommended that the results of this research can be an inpuit for the Language Center for developing writing skill mastery for Binus lectures.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ernawati E., Wiharja C. and Ningsih R. (2018). Writing Skill Mastery of the Non-language Department Lecturers in Bina Nusantara University. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences, Laws, Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: BINUS-JIC, ISBN 978-989-758-515-9, pages 513-517. DOI: 10.5220/0010023000002917

in Bibtex Style

@conference{binus-jic18,
author={Endang Ernawati and Chandra K. Wiharja and Rahmi Yulia Ningsih},
title={Writing Skill Mastery of the Non-language Department Lecturers in Bina Nusantara University},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences, Laws, Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: BINUS-JIC,},
year={2018},
pages={513-517},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010023000002917},
isbn={978-989-758-515-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences, Laws, Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: BINUS-JIC,
TI - Writing Skill Mastery of the Non-language Department Lecturers in Bina Nusantara University
SN - 978-989-758-515-9
AU - Ernawati E.
AU - Wiharja C.
AU - Ningsih R.
PY - 2018
SP - 513
EP - 517
DO - 10.5220/0010023000002917