THE STUDY OF STUDENT PARAGRAPH DEVELOPMENT AT SHIPBUILDING INSTITUTE OF POLYTECHNIC SURABAYA BY ENGAGING CONTROLLING IDEA IN WRITING PROCESS

Building a single paragraph needs techniques and strategies in order to arrange the ideas in a clear and logical order. This research aimed to gain the ideas development created by polytechnic students in building the paragraph for their writing process. This study was descriptive qualitative supported by the quantitative data to find out the ways how the students developed the ideas and arranged them in a good single paragraph. There were 24 students who were taken as the objects of research. The data were collected by purposive random sampling to get the qualitative data and the textual analysis was used to get the deeper interpretation of the data. The result showed that the students developed the single paragraph by stating the topic sentence in the beginning of their writing completed by the part of speech with adjective(70,8%) to control the ideas. It could be concluded that engaging the controlling idea in a topic sentence could make the students develop the ideas easily. Hopefully, this research could portrait the phenomenon which was useful for the lecturer to choose the effective strategies based on the students need in the skill of writing.