Analysis of Writing Capability of Scientific Work on Improving the Quality of Scientific Work of Students
Aim Abdulkarim

Civic Education Department, Indonesia University of Education

Abstract

This research is motivated by the amount of research produced by students is not balanced with good quality research measurement. Research topics in students scientific work are often repetitive and even have so much similarity values between one another. Even the topic is already looking obsolete and has no novelty / innovation value in it. One effort that can be done to minimize the symptoms of plagiarism and repetitive topics, it is necessary to mapping the topic of scientific work and methodology to help the birth of student research results in the form of articles published in reputable scientific journals. The purpose of this study is to describe the mapping of the quality of scientific work of postgraduate students of the Department of Education of Citizenship of the University of Education of Indonesia. Research method: The research approach used is quantitative approach with survey method. Research subjects are Civics experts, lecturers and students. The result of the research shows that: 1) Mastery of students ability in preparing scientific works is categorized as Good Enough so that there are some indicators that need to be re-developed their ability in preparing scientific papers both thesis and dissertation; 2) the results of expert validation on the quality of scientific works both thesis and dissertation shows that most aspects of the criteria of the quality of scientific work have been considered good with an average of 43.24%; 3) Efforts are made to improve the quality of research and to develop the quality of scientific work of the students in the aspects of: counseling, code of ethics, plagiarism, testing / assessment of research results, recognition and research results, joint research partners, and publications.

Keywords: mapping, improvement, quality, scientific work, students

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