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Figure 24 shows how students' argumentative writing skills improved

steadily (from draft version to revised versions) from Cycle 1 to Cycle 2.

Nevertheless, it appears that students encounter challenges when it comes to

constructing refutable paragraphs and substantiating their arguments. In

addition to the aforementioned challenges, participants also have difficulty

when attempting to effectively reiterate their stance within the concluding

paragraph. Interestingly, all students can provide background information

throughout their drafts in Cycle 2.

Then the researcher analyzed the components of communicative text.

According to Renandya et al. (2018); Richards (2006), writing as a means of

communication should meet fluency and accuracy, which are included in the

rating scale. While fluency is part of the number of words per time allotment,

accuracy deals with the number of mistakes/errors in the language used

(Knoch, 2009). In this study, the researcher analyzed the students' text

performance from the first draft to the next draft in three areas: paragraph

length, grammar accuracy, and spelling, because she could observe the

students' effort by seeing the trend index as empirical data.

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