The Urgency of Writing Scientific Papers for Tutors in Non-Formal Education Units (SPNF) in the Region 1 of Padang City

The skills training for the society is motivated by the low ability of the tutors to write scientific work in the Non-Formal Education Unit (SPNF) in the region of Padang City. The purposes of scientific writing skills training are able to: (1) theoretically, to understand the methods of scientific writing, (2) theoretically, to write scientific works in accordance with scientific steps, and (3) practically, be able to write scientific/real work in the framework of developing a career as a tutor of learning. Speech, question and answer, discussion, and training methods are the methods that will be used in this training. The speech and question-answer methods are used to provide counseling and skills training to the tutors. Discussion is used to the fellow participants to learn each other and discuss the training material delivered by the instructor. Whereas, training is used to improve tutors learning a skill in writing scientific papers. The results obtained from this training that most of the tutors were able to: (1) theoretically, understand the methods of writing scientific, (2) theoretically write scientific papers based on the scientific step