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This research is conducted to prove that there are various factors affecting
students' performance in writing skills. This study will contribute each individual to improve
their writing skills. Most of the study above focuses different strategies improving the writing
skills of the students.
Teachers and school’s administrators need to collaborate in motivating students to
improve their writing skills.When students gain confidence in writing skills, they continue to
set even more challenging goals and this will contribute to upgrade the students’
examination percentage in English writing. This can lead to better performance in schools’
examination results in terms of higher grades in writing and other challenging task. Teachers’
perseverance also can affect how well a student performs in school. School administrator
should encourage teacher sand parents to take more active role in the learning process. These
connection shows that students and teachers should work together to increase the confidence
and indirectly motivate students to improve writing skills.
According to (Lopres 2023) with regards to writing skills, in the previous study the
study focused about the academic essay writing strategies. The study used the descriptivequantitative method of research. The University-approved questionnaire was used to identify
the frequency of use of the strategies utilized in students' essay writing activities. It was
discovered that the three-academic essay-writing strategies investigated in the study were
always used in both argumentative and informative essay writing, as perceived by the
respondents. The first two strategies, traffic light color coding, and planning using informal
outline, were found to be very effective in both writing the argumentative and informative
essays, while the third strategy, framed paragraph, was also effective to use in both writing
the two types of essays. The strategies used, and the students' performance showed a
significant relationship. The top barriers in teaching academic essay writing were as follows:
teaching essay writing to second language learners, lack of time for explicit instruction, no
strategies in place for the part of the students, lack of parental support, and lack of essay
structures on the part of the teachers. It was concluded that there were various effective
pedagogical strategies that teachers could utilize in teaching academic essay writing. Based
on the findings, this study further presents its recommendations.