Strategies Used by the Students of Tenth Graders in Writing Free Composition

Abstract

This thesis entitled "Strategies Used by the Students of Tenth Graders in Writing Free Composition" is intended to discover the strategies applied by the tenth graders in writing free composition. For this, data have been collected from four private and boarding schools of Indrapur, Mrigauliya and Belbari VDCs of Morang district through interview, questionnaire, observation and note taken from their respected subject teachers. On the basis of collected data, the strategies employed by the students were determined using simple stastitical tools such as percentage and mean weightage. Among the experimented writing strategies which can be used before writing and while writing free composition, only memorization strategy was used by the students most of the time before writing and translating and copying strategies were used while writing most of the time. Those students who used own creation, brain storming and free writing strategy had the high success rate. They had been found in good position. The study has been divided into four chapters. Chapter One encompasses general background, review of related literature, objectives of the study, significance of the study. Chapter two deals with methodology. It incorporates sources of data, population of the study, sample population, tools for data collection, limitation of the study and process of data analysis. Chapter three includes analysis and interp1retation of data. Chapter four consists of finding and recommendations. Some findings have been presented on the basis of the analysis and interpretation done in the previous chapters. With the help of findings conclusion is drawn and some recommendations are made. The appendix and references are given in the final part of the thesis.