English Writing Skill of Informatics Engineering Students

This descriptive qualitative study was conducted in order to analyze the English writing skill of Informatics Engineering students where the respondents contributed are the first semester students of Informatics Engineering, University of Indraprasta PGRI. Data collected through writing test given to the students, in which students were required to write a recount text. The analysis was conducted according to Hughes Scoring theory of Writing skill. The study findings and result show that the writing skill score of Informatics students is quite low, where there were only 10 or 40% of 25 students got higher score than 67, the median score of Hughes writing scoring that determine the low-high score. In the other hand, there were 15 or 60% students got lower score. It means that there are more students with low score than the high one, so it can be concluded that the writing skill of Informatics Engineering students is classified as low category.