STUDENTS' STRATEGIES IN WRITING ESSAY AT UIN MAHMUD YUNUS BATUSANGKAR
SRI ANITA, NIM 1930104067, thesis title: "Students' Strategies in Writing Argumentative Essay at UIN Mahmud Yunus Batusangkar", Tadris English Study Program, Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training Sciences, Islamic State University (UIN) Mahmud Yunus Batusangkar. This research originated from a phenomenon that occurred among students of the English Study Program of UIN Mahmud Yunus Batusangkar. Students have problems writing their argumentative essays. They use writing strategies in argumentative essays to make it easier for them to write argumentative essays. The purpose of this study was to find out how students use strategies in writing argumentative essays for fourth-semester students in Tadris English Study Program at UIN Mahmud Yunus Batusangkar. The research uses a qualitative approach method with a type of case study research design and is descriptive. This research involved 13 students who attended the Argumentative writing class in the fourth semester of the Tadris English Study Program at UIN Mahmud Yunus Batusangkar. In this study, researchers used instruments taken from questionnaires totaling 58 people and when they got informant answers in accordance with the theory used by researchers, then researchers conducted interviews with informants who selected answers from questionnaires according to what was needed by researchers as many as 13 people. Data collected from the mix of questionnaires distributed until the discovery of writing showed that all students used strategies to write argumentative essays, and conducted interviews to strengthen the answers of students who had filled out questionnaires. In analyzing qualitative data, researchers used theories from Miles and Huberman in the book Sugiono (2009. 910); data reduction, data presentation, verification, and conclusions. The results showed students' strategies in writing argumentative essays, namely: 1) Choosing a topic. 2). Brainstorming. 3) Writing in outlining. 4) Collecting reference books. 5) Revising. 6) Editing. 7). Having with sharing. 8). Ceking turntim. This strategy helps students write argumentative writing well and can produce a good argumentative essay, and interesting to read.