Abstract:
The aim of this study is to know the students’ ability in writing report
text, the content and organization of report text, the students vocabulary,
grammar, and mechanism in writing reporttext at the eight grade of SMPN 35
Makassar.. This research is a descriptive research. The object of this
research is report text made by the eight grade students of SMPN 35
Makassar. The methods of collecting data are writing test and analyzing
document. Data of this research are the students’ writing of report text. The
data source of this research are the informant and writing test. The technique
for analyzing data is (1) reading the students’ work sheet in the form of report
text. (2) analyzing the aspects of report text; content, organization,
vocabulary, grammar and mechanic. (3) classifying and scoring the students
test of writing report paragraph. (4) drawing conclusion based on the result of
the research of the students’ ability in writing report text. The result of this
study shows that the students’ ability in writing report text at the eight grade of
SMPN 35 Makassaris average. 7 students belong to good category. There
are 23 students belong to fair category, and there is no student who belongs
to very good and poor category. It means that the students’ ability in writing
reporttext at the eight grade of SMPN 35 Makassar is fair. The most problem
faced by the students in writing report text are mechanism and grammar. It
can be seen from the average score of the five aspects in writing report text.
