dc.description.abstract | This study aims to figure out EFL students’ experiences in developing paragraphs and difficulties
in writing paragraphs of academic texts. This current study was qualitative research which
employed interviews as the data collection method. The participants of the study were five
students who were writing their research report as a requirement for their undergraduate degree.
The study was conducted in one of private universities in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The findings of
the study showed that in developing paragraphs, the students did brainstorming, drafting, revising, and editing. Moreover, related to the problems in writing paragraph, the students faced difficulties in English words and word choice, grammar, development of main idea, coherence and
cohesiveness, effective sentence, and citation | en_US |