ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ SUMMARIZING AT UNIVERSITAS PGRI SUMATERA BARAT

Abstract

At the English Education Study Program at PGRI University in West Sumatra, students have a number of
challenges when it comes to writing, particularly when it comes to writing summaries. These challenges
inspired this line of research. This study is a descriptive one with a quantitative methodology, and its
primary purpose is to investigate how students summarize information. A document consisting of twentytwo
student assignments on writing summaries was obtained by the researcher from the lecturer in charge
of the course. This document serves as the primary source of information for this study's findings. The
researcher used a rubric to conduct an analysis, which involved analyzing the indicators that were attained
from the summary writing evaluation. These indicators included the summary's length, accuracy,
paraphrasing, focus, and any errors in syntax, punctuation, or spelling. The researcher will give the
findings of the analysis and offer conclusions beginning with the indicators that were most successful and
working their way to those that were least successful. The findings of this study suggest that students in the
English Education Study Program have a summary that is 51.13 percent longer, has an accuracy rate of
95.45 percent, has a paraphrase rate of 29.54 percent, has a focus rate of 68.18 percent, and adheres to an
87.5 percent convention. The findings lead one to the conclusion that summarizing is extremely significant
for the following reasons: it can increase the quality of students' work, particularly in writing; it can also
help students develop their ideas; and it can make it simpler for students to comprehend the text.