The Effect of Outline to Improve Students Writing' Ability at the Second Year Students of SMAN 3 Mamuju

Main Article Content

Syahban Mada Ali
Nurul Hasanah

Abstract

The Effects of Outline to Improve Students’ Writing Ability at the Second Year Students of SMAN 3 Mamuju. Outline is a useful tool to help writers get easier in developing their ideas. An outline can do two things: first, it can save a lot of rewriting and second, it allows writers to check quickly their paragraph’s unity. The aim of this research is to find out whether the use of outline can improve the students’ writing ability in a descriptive paragraph. The method used was true-experimental design. The subject of this research was class XI A students of SMAN 3 Mamuju. The data collected was from the test given to the students and was analyzed through quantitative method. To get the score, the researcher used scoring scale which includes the content, organization, vocabulary, language use and mechanics. The mean score, standard deviation, and t-test between the pre-test and post-test was calculated by using Jacob’s scoring rubric. The data analysis showed that the students’ got their mean score greater in the posttest than in the pretest, in which the mean score was 51.8 and 68.5. Moreover, the t-test value (25.064) was also higher than the t-table value (2.045), which is meant the treatment of outline strategy gave a significant improvement to the students’ writing ability of SMAN 3 Mamuju.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Article Details

How to Cite
Ali, S., & Hasanah, N. (2020). The Effect of Outline to Improve Students Writing’ Ability at the Second Year Students of SMAN 3 Mamuju. Edumaspul: Jurnal Pendidikan, 4(1), 98-103. https://doi.org/10.33487/edumaspul.v4i1.198
Section
Articles

Most read articles by the same author(s)

Obs.: This plugin requires at least one statistics/report plugin to be enabled. If your statistics plugins provide more than one metric then please also select a main metric on the admin's site settings page and/or on the journal manager's settings pages.