Siti Munawaroh (2013) THE EFFECT OF USING POWER (PREPARING, ORGANIZING, WRITING, EDITING, REWRITING) STRATEGY TOWARD ABILITY IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT OF THE FIRST YEAR STUDENTS AT MTs AL-ISTIQOMAH SELATPANJANG MERANTI ISLAND REGENCY. Skripsi thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau.

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Abstract

Based on school-based curriculum (KTSP), writing is as one of the skills in mastering English that must be taught and learned in junior high school. MTs Al-Istiqomah Selatpanjang is one of the schools that use it as a guide in teaching learning process. After doing preliminary observation at MTs Al-Istiqomah Selatpanjang, the researcher found that some of the students of the first year still had low ability in their writing. The researcher interpreted that they had lack of vocabulary and information of the lesson that had been taught in expressing their ideas of English. The objective of this research were to find out the students’ ability in writing descriptive text before being taught by using POWER strategy, to find out the students’ ability in writing descriptive text after being taught by using POWER strategy and find out if there is a significant difference of students’ ability in writing by using POWER strategy of the first year students at MTs Al Istiqomah Selatpanjang Meranti Island Regency. The type of research was pre-experimental research. The design was based on pretest and posttest. The subject of this research was the first year students at MTs Al- Istiqomah Selatpanjang Meranti Island Regency. The object of this research was the effect of using POWER strategy towards students’ ability in writing descriptive text. The population of this research was all of students of the first year students in the academic year of 2011/2012. The sample was chosen through total population sampling. To analyze the data, the researcher used Paired Sample T-test formula. The result of data analysis was t0 that was higher than t table . In other words, there is a significant difference of students’ ability in writing descriptive text before being taught by using POWER strategy and after being taught by using POWER strategy of the first year students at MTs Al-Istiqomah Selatpanjang Meranti Island Regency. Therefore, it can be concluded that after being taught by using POWER strategy was better than before using POWER strategy.

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