AN APPRAISAL ON THE EFFICACY OF 6 + 1 TRAIT WRITING MODELS ON HND STUDENTS IN WRITING GOOD PARAGRAPHS

The study investigates the difficulties encountered by Polytechnic Students (HND) in writing cohesive and coherent paragraphs in English. The 6 + 1 trait writing model has become a widely adopted framework for teaching and assessing writing across various levels. The study explores the effects of the model on students’ writing skills, focusing on how its structured approach enhances specific writing segments paragraph in particular, such as ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions and presentation. Drawing on existing research and classroom studies. The study concludes that the 6+1 Trait model significant improves student paragraph writing quality, fosters metacognitive awareness of the writing. It further concludes that the HND students found it difficult to develop efficient paragraph in English, specifically students have difficulty in using appropriate cohesive devices in writing of paragraphs, couple with poor knowledge of gramma and limited vocabulary. Therefore, the lecturers should expose the students to the skills of developing an effective paragraph in writing English composition.