IMPROVING THE STUDENTS’ SKILL IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT USING THE POWER OF TWO STRATEGY

Abstract

Writing is one of important skills that need long process to construct sentences and ideas. But
students still get problem in writing, therefore it is important to do the research entitled “Improving
the Students’ Skill in writing Descriptive Text by Using the Power of Two Strategy”
In this research, the aim is to find out how the use of The Power of Two strategy can improve
students’ descriptive writing ability. The kind of the research was CAR. The subject of the research
was VIII F class. To obtain the research data, test and observation were used
The result showed that the students’ average score in cycle one was 78 while in cycle two was 83.
Beside 69.17% of the students were active in cycle one and 88.45% in cycle two. Based on the result
it can be concluded that the use of The Power of Two strategy can improve the students’ descriptive
writing ability at SMPN 1 Jambesari Darussholah in 2015/2016 academic year.
Key words: Writing ability, the Power of Two