<![CDATA[This study was conducted to analyze the students' skills in writing business letters in the eleventh grade at SMKN 2 Padang. The purposes of this research were to identify the students' skills in writing business letters and to find out the difficulties faced by the students. The researcher focused on five aspects of writing assessment, namely format, content, organization, vocabulary, and mechanics. This research employed a descriptive research method. The population of this research consisted of the eleventh-grade students of SMKN 2 Padang. The sample was 31 students of class XI TJKT 1 selected using total sampling. The research instrument was a business letter writing test. The collected data were analyzed by calculating the students' scores, mean score, and percentage. The results revealed that the students' skill in writing business letters was categorized as Good, with a mean score of 67.29. The percentage of the students' skill was distributed as follows: 35.48% (11 students) were categorized as Excellent, 54.83% (17 students) were categorized as Good, and 9.67% (3 students) were categorized as Fair. Further analysis of each writing aspect showed that format obtained the highest mean score (4.27), followed by organization (3.85), content (3.82), vocabulary (2.79), and mechanics (1.84). The findings indicate that students experienced the greatest difficulties in vocabulary and mechanics, particularly in spelling, punctuation, and capitalization.]]>
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