The research was conducted to identify the students’ strategies in implementing critical thinking when writing an argumentative essay. The methods used is qualitative approach which involved the case study method, the researcher collected the data using retrospect, interview, and questionnaire. The participants whom were involved in this research were a Business School students in Serpong. Th…

This thesis is to investigate the relationship between the mastery of vocabulary, Logical Thinking, and Students‟ Skills of Writing Argumentative English Texts on the Twelfth Grade Students of Senior High Schools Persatuan Guru Republik Indonesia The method used is descriptive and quantitative approach by survey which obtained the data scientifically; the writer collected the data by …

Writing a paragraph academically is not an easy task; it consists of lengthy procedures and the ability to write skillfully. In addition, writing a paragraph academically is very important in academic life. However, in reality, many of the difficulties of writing a paragraph academically seen and have been proven by the students’ writing test. This thesis is aimed to explore the use of Edmod…

The thesis aims to explore the ongoing process of the implementation of Theme-Rheme in XI IPA 2 of SMAN 1 Sijuk, to find out the difficulties which are encountered by the students when they learned Theme-Rheme and the benefits of implementing Theme-Rheme, and the students’ writing after being taught by using Theme-Rheme. The method in this thesis is case study in which the data is obtained b…

The purpose of this study is to find out whether there is any significant different effect of students’ writing achievement for Grade VIII SMPN 11 Depok based on teaching approaches; peer feedback and teacher feedback. This study is using qualitative analysis that covered descriptive analysis statistics (mean, median, mode, maximum, minimum, standard deviation and distribution frequency). Th…

This research aimed to investigate the effect of teaching techniques and attitude on students’ writing skill in recount text for students of eighth grade SMPN 10 Tangerang, Banten, academic year 2013/2014. The investigated teaching techniques were Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC) and Praise-Question-Polish (PQP) while the attitudes were positive and negative ones. Th…

This thesis was aimed at improving the students’ writing ability by using instructional scaffolding at the eighth grade of Candra Jaya Junior High School West Jakarta. The subjects of the study were 40 students in eight grade of Candra Jaya Junior High School. This study used Classroom Action Research (CAR), and it was conducted in three cycles, each of which consisted of planning, actio…

The objective of the research is to investigate: (1) whether any positive affect of Peer Feedback technique toward students’ writing; (2) whether any positive effect of Self Revising technique toward students’ writing; (3) which technique is better to be applied toward students’ writing. This research was conducted in STKIP Garut from September until November 2012 toward 2 classes with…

The study investigated the comparative effects of brainstorming and clustering techniques on university students’ achievement in the third semester of STIBA - IEC in East Jakarta. The researcher generated three questions concerned with the effectiveness of each strategy in improving students’ writing ability and the effectiveness of the clustering over brainstorming technique. In the in…

The purpose of this thesis is to find out the implementation of inquiry based learning through internet to improve writing ability of the students of 256 Junior High School Jakarta. A class was chosen purposively out of 26 classes which focused on the 9th grade students. Data were gathered by way of classroom action research, questionnaire, and interview. There were thirty five students of o…