The Use of Student Worksheet to Improve Writing Ability of Descriptive Text

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10.2991/aisteel-17.2017.73How to use a DOI?

Keywords

student worksheet; writing ability; descriptive text

Abstract

In an effort to improve the quality of human resources, it is necessary that learning to write in educational institutions can realize the optimal writing ability. However, the reality shows that the ability to write descriptive text of the students of Indonesian Language and Literature Study Program Universitas Negeri Medan is not satisfied. This study aims to know whether the use of student worksheet in learning to write descriptive text can improve the ability of the students to write descriptive text. In this research, the approach used was quantitative descriptive and the method used was experiment. The results showed, firstly, the ability of the students to write descriptive text before using worksheet is categorized sufficient with an average score for 62.5. Secondly, the ability to write descriptive text after using worksheet was categorized good with an average score for 74.32. This means that there is an increase for 11.82%. It can be concluded that the use of student worksheet can improve the ability of the student to write descriptive text.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Sanggup Barus
AU  - Sahat Siagian
AU  - Abdul Hasan Saragih
PY  - 2017/10
DA  - 2017/10
TI  - The Use of Student Worksheet to Improve Writing Ability of Descriptive Text
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd Annual International Seminar on Transformative Education and Educational Leadership (AISTEEL 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 345
EP  - 348
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aisteel-17.2017.73
DO  - 10.2991/aisteel-17.2017.73
ID  - Barus2017/10
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