The Composition Writing Competence of First Year Students at Cabuyao National High School Cabuyao, Laguna

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Many people are intimidated by writing. Even so, there are times when writing is the best way to communicate, and oftentimes the only way to get your message clear and accurate. When writing, be mindful of the fact that once something in written form, it cannot be taken back. Communicating in this way is more concrete than verbal communications, which less room for error and even less room for mistakes.

Students build and acquire competency in two brand areas; writing mechanics and writing process. As a student advance in grades, teachers must continue to place emphasis and use reinforcement on the mechanics in addition to process aspects of writing. The primary purpose of this study is to analyze the students' writing competence, to find out their difficulties in writing and seek possible solutions to the problems.

METHODS

The descriptive method and the purposive sampling research design was deemed the most appropriate for this study using the summary, questionnaire in the Rating Scale form in gathering data. This method seeks to describe a present condition, since the present study concerned with the levels of writing competence of first-year students of Cabuyao National High School. The questionnaire was administered to the respondents with 91 students of the first year students of Cabuyao National High School. The male students are 34 while the female students are 57.

The writing test is composed of three pages; the first page contains the profile of the respondents concerning. The second page contains the Ordinal Scale and the table for the rating of the researcher. And the third page is for the respondents' scratch paper.

RESULTS

The survey showed that the composition writing competence of the first year high school students of Cabuyao National High School had no significant relationship to their age and previous grades in English, while in gender there is a significant relationship.

DISCUSSIONS

Based upon the summary of findings and conclusions of this study formulated the following recommendations were offered:

1. The teachers should help the students to think seriously about their writing and work habits by asking students an open-ended question.

2. Encourage students to make a first draft, scan, and edit their composition to see the common errors use.

3. Develop positive attitudes so that it can help the students to get rid all negative self-evaluation and increase their self-confidence that he is competitive enough to write as what the modern society needs.