Improving Students’ Scientific Writing Skills Through Article Coaching Clinic Program

Abstract

One of the causes of the low number of students in scientific publications is the fact that they do not have sufficient skills or experience in compiling journal articles. The Department of Arabic Education at Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia has organized an intensive coaching clinic program for journal article writing. This is done as an initiative to improve students' journal article writing skills. Therefore, this study aims to dig deeper into the coaching clinic program in improving students' journal article writing skills starting from planning, application, monitoring, journal article quality, and the volume of article dissemination in journal institutions. This study implies a descriptive subjective technique. Furthermore, the data are collected using observation, interviews, and documentation. The research produces an outcome that shows that of 30 students who participated in the coaching clinic program, 25 of them were successfully submitted to various scientific journals indexed by SINTA, while the articles that have been declared published are 12 articles. In addition, five students do not submit articles to journal institutions. Thus, the coaching clinic program can have a positive impact on students, including increasing students' understanding and skills in writing journal articles and increasing the volume of student scientific publications.