Assessing the Role of Students and Textbook on the Problems of Writing Effective Paragraph

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This research focused on assessing the problems of students in writing effective paragraph. Its main objective is an assessment of the problems of students and text book on writing effective paragraph. In the research mixed approach research used was random stratified, and 90(30%) of participants were selected. The researcher used questionnaire, test, observation, interview and analyzing student's text book. The finding indicated that the students are not practicing to write effective paragraph. The mean value of students on paragraph writing test is below 50. This shows that there is a serious problem. Paragraph writing tasks which are included in student's text book only 13(14.44%). In general, students have many problems in writing effective paragraph; as they are not practicing paragraph writing and the limited number of paragraph writing tasks is used in student's text book. As the problem is widely observed, it invited students, teachers, Oromia edu bureau and other concerned bodies to device mechanisms of alleviation strategies Copyright@2015 STAR Journal INTRODUCTIONThe base for composition writing began in 1960 concerning on the development of first language writing. At that time, study on organization, composition writing, and linguistics was started (Ferris & Hedgcock, 2005). However, there was no guideline of composition writing until 1980's. At the beginning and the mid of 20 guideline for writing composition had been occurred as education policy (Ghabol et al., 2012). Its aim was to let students from lower to higher level of U.S. organize text by analyzing different writings (Sun et al., 2009).In 1960's, 1970's and 1980's education policy and higher standard researchers were used writing composition of first language (Badger & White, 2000). The process of writing which was begun during this time gave due attention for individual creative writing (Hasan al., 2010;Nunan, 1999). The focus of this approach was to solve problems, to observation, to explaining or to describe things in writing, the idea of redundancy rounded writing composition (Ferris & Hedgcock, 2005) As Susser (1994) states, at the beginning of 20 those who used the process of paragraph writing in 1 language as source were the follower of John Dewey "learning is a process". Due to this, starting from that time was being raised as a theory debate in methods of teaching writing and conducting research. Concerning the process of writing research in 1 st language to teach paragraph composition in English, the first guideline was describing the process of writing (Zamel, 1983 Abstract ArticleThis research focused on assessing the problems of students in writing effective paragraph. Its main objective is an assessment of the problems of students and text book on writing effective paragraph. In the research mixed approach research design was used. The sampling technique used was random stratified, and 90(30%) of participants were selected. The researcher used questionnaire, test, observation, interview and analyzing student's text bo...