Student’s Problem in Writing Results and Discussion Section of Research Articles for International Journals

In writing a research article student are expected to be able to write a good result and discussion in fact, they tend to use descriptive style which cannot categorize as a good result and discussion. Therefore, this research is aimed at describing students learning model in writing result and discussion. The method is qualitative method. The data were collected from classroom observation, recording, and interview when they were writing a research article based on research. The analysis of the data followed some steps namely; (1) collecting scores from expert assessment by inter-subjectivity test of 5 experts, (2) collecting pragmatic test result, (3) calculating the result of reliability and validity test, (4) designing the process indicator of learning based research (5) Synthesizing the data with the research indicator .The results of the study illustrate that there is a problem of scientific competence and mechanical mastery in writing result and discussion part. The problem of scientific competence includes; (1) stating unexpected result of the research (2) refer to previous research, (3) using various illustrations, (4) interpreting research results for scientific purposes, and (5) suggest for practical implementation of research findings. In conclusion, there are a number of scientific competence problems and mechanical competence problems are found. It is suggested that the learning process of writing result and discussion part which is oriented to publish the article in international Journal should be done continuously to the students and lecturers (in Supervising the students) in order to create adequate academic