Developing Writing Assessment Rubric For Explanation Text Of Grade XI Students At SMKN 4 Medan

Writing is one of skills in English and it’s important for students, also it is not an easy skill to master. As stated by Richards and Renandya (2002: 303), writing is the most difficult skill to master for second or foreign language students. Writing skills are placed in the last section after three skills namely listening, speaking, and reading. This study aims to develop a writing assessment rubric for explanation text for eleventh grade, to assess student writing related to the availability of the 2013 Curriculum for English subjects in the school. This research is about how and why, which is the process of explanation text itself and at the same time can improve their writing skills. This research method uses research and development methods (R & D). Therefore, to overcome this problem, the researchers agreed to conduct a study entitled "Developing Writing Assessment Rubric For Explanation Text Of Grade XI Students at SMKN 4 Medan". Based on the result of the writing assessment rubric, the average was 3,7 and the percentage was 93,7% that categorized in “Very Good” category.