@misc{eprints58063,
           title = {A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF WRITING COMPETENCE AND STRATEGIES
BETWEEN EXTROVERT AND INTROVERT STUDENTS AT THE SECOND

GRADE OF SMAN 1 TERBANGGI BESAR},
          author = {1413042026 Gilang Ramadhan},
         address = {UNIVERSITAS LAMPUNG},
       publisher = {FAKULTAS KEGURUAN DAN ILMU PENDIDIKAN},
            year = {2019},
             url = {http://digilib.unila.ac.id/58063/},
        abstract = {Writing skill is considered to be the most difficult skill to be mastered. It is
reasonable since mastering writing requires the students to organize their
ideas first before putting it in written form. Specifically, there are five
aspects that should be taken into account when it is concerning with writing,
they are: content, organization, vocabulary, language use and mechanic.
Consequently, the students experiences crucial problem in mastering
writing. As a result, they have different writing competence level. In
addition, a personality type is also one of the factors for that difference.
Personality also contributes to students? writing competence because it leads
one to think, act and respond to stimuli differently from other people.
Furthermore, personality also decides the strategies used by the students
while organizing their ideas. Therefore, the teacher has an important role to
find out the relationship among their writing competence, personality and
writing strategies.
Hence, the current research was aimed to find out the better group in writing
competence and strategies between introvert and extrovert students, and the
correlation between writing strategies and competence. The subjects of the
research were thirty-two students of SMA Negeri 1 Terbanggi Besar. Before
the research was conducted, the subject was divided into two categories,
introvert and extrovert, using Eysenck Personality Inventory. The data were
collected by using writing strategies questionnaires and a writing test.
Independent class T-Test and Pearson?s Product Moment for Correlation
were used to analyze the results of the writing test and writing strategies
questionnaires. The result showed that the introvert students were better in
both writing strategies and competences than the extrovert students. The
positive correlation was also concluded between writing strategies and
competence. Therefore, this finding suggests that the better a student applies
writing strategies, the better his/her writing competence is.
Keywords: writing strategy, writing competence, introvert, extrovert}
}