Teaching Essay Writing to the ELT Students'

Essay writing ELT students’ is considered as one of the most important academic courses in a supposed program help develop students’ skill. The research subjects were 11 students of class 2019 A STKIP PGRI Sidoarjo English Education study program. The instrument used was a questionnaire and scoring rubric. The technique for data analysis is qualitative. In analyzing essay writing data with a questionnaire and scoring rubric are as follows. Taking the data questionnaire was conducted using 15 questionnaires in a student's response to learning essay writing with Google Form with answers to yes and no. respondents who answered yes as much 84,23% and than respondents who answered no as much 21,22%. Then got data based on scoring rubric was carried out by assessing and correcting the essay writing results of 11 students of class 2019 A. The result were assessed using a scoring rubric consisted of 5 aspects, namely format, mechanics, content, organization, grammar and sentence structure. From the description above, the average value was 87.3. This study presents a research report on teaching essay writing to the ELT students. The aim is to find out students ability in essay writing and students responses in essay writing classroom.