Essay Writing Ability of Students of Grade Seven

Abstract

This research entitled Essay Writing Ability of Students of Grade Seven is an attempt to find out the essay writing ability of the students of grade seven and to compare the essay writing ability of grade seven students of public schools with that of private schools. The researcher selected forty eight students from four different schools (two public schools and two private schools) of Saptary district through purposive non-random sampling procedure. The test items were used (i.e. three essay type questions) as the main tools for data collection. The collected data were analyzed and interpreted with the help of tables and using some statistical tools such as mean and percentage. This research study shows that students of public school were poor in comparison to the students of private school as the students of public school got 57.81% whereas the students of private school got 68.04% in average. Moreover, students (i.e. 54.16%) was found better in private school i.e. 7.58 (75.83%) in subject matter, 4.38 (86.66%) in grammar, 2.87 (87.5%) in language and 1.25 (31.25%) in style than the students of public school. This thesis consists of five chapters. The first chapter deals with the introduction of the topic in which background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definition of key terms. The second chapter covers the review of related theoretical, review of related empirical literature, implications of the review for the study, and conceptual framework. The third chapter deals with methods and procedures of the study which includes design and method of the study, population, sample and sampling strategy, research tools, sources of data, data collection procedures, data analysis and interpretation procedures and ethical considerations. The fourth chapter deals with the analysis and interpretation of results. It also includes analysis of data, interpretation of results. It also includes analysis of data, interpretation of results and summary of findings. The five chapter deals with conclusions and recommendations followed by references and appendices. The recommendation is subsumed under policy related, practice related and further research related respectively.