The Relationship between Learning Motivation and Paragraph Knowledge on the Students' Ability to Write a Short Story at SMPN 21 Padang

摘要

Write to assemble said to be a paragraph. Writing by using the paragraph correct will make readers can follow the idea of mind and the author. This way, it can be known from write short stories one of them. Writing short stories can serve as a means to pour out feelings, experiences, and ideas. For that, in learning to write short stories students are required to develop their creativity by making an idea that will be a topic for short stories. Them come from imagination, personal experience, or the experience of others. So with the motivation to learn with the knowledge of paragraphs is important for writers in developing ideas, ideas in the skills of writing short stories. One improves the learning process and quality of learning in schools through the knowledge of the students' knowledge of the paragraphs and motivations. Learning not based on a teacher, but on the students. With learning to write short stories can improve the process of student creativity generated through effective learning. Based on the research results can be concluded First, the results of the calculation of the level of understanding of learning motivation variabes by 70%, while the relationship of learning motivation to influence students' writing skill of 23.48%. Second, the result of the level of understanding of the respondents to the paragraph knowledge variable is 71.23%. Third, the calculation of the level of understanding of the respondents to the variable of short story writing skills is 80% by contributing to learning motivation and paragraph knowledge.