Proficiency in Free Writing of Tenth Graders

Abstract

This research work attempts to compare the writing proficiency of the Tenth Graders of Sunsari District in a variety of free writing. To carry out this research work, the researcher prepared the test items of different types of free writings i.e. essay, letter and paragraph writing. Then, a test was administrated to a number of 60 students in order to find out data for the research. The sources of data were 60 students from six Private schools of Sunsari District. Then the test was administered to collect the data. After the administration of the test, the free writing of the students was collected, scored, analyzed and the proficiency was calculated and compared. It was found that the students have achieved 72.41 percentage in essay writing, 66.25 percentage in letters writing and 60.66 percentage in paragraph writing. (see table 1 and Appendix V) and Girls` overall proficiency in free writing i. e. essay, letter and paragraph were 65.33 percentage whereas boys` overall proficiency was 67.55 percentage (see table 2 & 3, Appendix III & IV). They scored better in essay than in letters and paragraph writing. This research study consists of five chapters: introduction, review of related literature, methodology, results and discussions and findings and recommendations. The first chapter introduction contains general background, statements of the problems, rational of the study, objectives of the study, research questions, significant of the study and delimitations of the study. Similarly, second chapter deals with review of the related literature, implication of the reviewed literature and conceptual framework. Chapter three methods and procedures of the study consists of design of the study, sources of data, population of the study, sampling procedures, data collection tools and procedures, process of data collection and data analysis and interpretations. Forth chapter is result and discussions of the data. In this section vii

marks obtained by the students have been analyzed to find out their writing proficiency. Some statistical tools such as average and percentage have been used to analyze the marks obtained by the students. Finally, the writing proficiency of the students of tenth graders has been compared on the basis of the marks obtained in free writing. Finally, fifth chapter consists of findings and recommendations of the study. reference and appendices are presented at the end of this chapter.