Abstract :
This research wanted to find out how well students at the University of
Pasir Pengaraian's English program write report text and how many simple,
compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences were in their text during
the fourth semester.
The population of this research was students at the fourth semester of
English study program University of Pasir Pengaraian, the academic year
2021/2022. The researcher used total sampling technique. The amount of samples
was 34 students. The methodology of this research used a descriptive quantitative
design. The data of this research were from writing tests. In analyzing the data
used a rubric assessment of writing.
Based on collecting the researcher discovered and analyzed the data that
the student's skills in writing report text were in the fair category with a score of
69.84. Students had two criteria in the good category, there was an organization
(15.25) and vocabulary (15.19), and two criteria in the fair category, there was
content (20.14) and language use (15.51), and one criterion in the very poor
category, it was mechanic (2.75). From 34 reports text contained 390 total
sentences. 154 simple sentences, 55 compound sentences, 133 complex sentences,
and 48 compound-complex sentences were included. It mean that the students
more used simple sentences rather than others in writing a report text. The second
sentences after the simple sentences were complex sentences. Meanwhile,
students were less in use of compound sentences and compound-complex
sentences in the report text.