The Influence of Students Sentence Structure Knowledge on Writing Essays

摘要

The Influence of Students Sentence Structure Knowledge on Writing Essays. This study uses survey methods with path analysis techniques. The population of this study is students of Sekolah Dasar Negeri Bengkulu Tengah school year 2017/2018, and a sample of 5th grade students, totaling 150 people, on average between the ages of 10-11 years consisting of 80 male students and 70 female students. Data collection was done by questionnaire and test techniques. The results of the study concluded that: Knowledge of sentence structure has a direct positive effect on essay Writing Ability (0.441) and the amount of direct influence is 0.51 (51%)". The conclusion is that essay writing skills are positively influenced directly by sentence structure knowledge. Increased knowledge of sentence structure will result in an increase in essay writing skills of 51%.