ABSTRACT
Writing is a process of creativity expressing ideas in the mind into the form of writing with a specific purpose. To facilitate students in writing requires certain techniques to help students writing better. This study used clustering techniques to teach writing descriptive text. The objectives of this research is to investigate the effectiveness of using clustering technique in teaching writing descriptive text. The specific objectives are to find out: (1) How effective is the use of clustering techniques to teach writing to students in learning descriptive writing, and (2) How is the result of each aspect toward students in learning descriptive writing. The research method used in this research was quantitative method and the research design was a pre-experimental by using post-test. The instrument of this research was written test. The sample of this research was the tenth grade students of SMAN 3 Kediri. The result of this research shows there was a positive effect of the result of students’ descriptive writing using the clustering technique. It can be seen from the calculation of the mean of post-test and the mean score of each aspect of writing. The mean of post-test is 83 and the mean score of content is 95, organization is 84, vocabulary is 85, grammar is 72, mechanics is 75. Thus, it can be concluded that using clustering technique in teaching writing descriptive text is effective to the tenth grade students of SMAN 3 Kediri.
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