ENGLISH ACADEMIC WRITING FOR THE STUDENTS OF TECHNICAL INFORMATION OF WIDYA DHARMA UNIVERSITY OF KLATEN

Abstract

Writing is one of the main skill in learning English which is conclude on productive skill in the ability
of producing language. In the university, writing skill has an expected that the students could
mastering in the academic writing level. It has an aim that the students could write at least the abstract
of their research paper in English. In Widya Dharma University of Klaten, the writing skill given
from the early semester integrated with the other three skills (listening, reading, and speaking). In the
process of teaching and learning, it is found that the writing skill of the technical information students
was not satisfying. This research is described the problems faced by the students in mastering
academic English writing in Technical Information of Widya Dharma University of Klaten. In this
research, the problems faced by the students is on the English vocabulary and the grammatical used in
the sentences.
Keywords : Academic writing; vocabulary; grammatical