Improving Students’ Writing Skill in
Descriptive Text by Using Clustering Technique (A Classroom Action
Research to the Tenth Grade Students of SMK Negeri 1 Sajingan
Besar).” This research aimed to find out how Clustering Technique can improve
students’ writing skill in descriptive text to the tenth grade students of SMK
Negeri 1 Sajingan Besar in the academic year of 2015/2016. This classroom
action research was done in two cycles. Each cycle consisted of four actions;
they were planning, acting, observing and reflecting. Then, the subject of
research was the students of class XRPL consisted of 35 students where 8 male
and 27 female.
This research used observation and measurement as the technique of
collecting data. In collected the data, the writer used qualitative and quantitative
data. The qualitative data were taken from observation checklist, field note, and
recorder while quantitative data were taken from the students’ writing test. Then,
in analyzed the data, the writer used descriptive qualitative analysis to the
qualitative data and statistic descriptive to the quantitative data.
Based on the result of observation checklist, field note, and recorder, the
students were feel motivated to write the descriptive text. They also were active
and enthusiastic during the learning process guided by the researcher. Then, the
result of the students’ individual score on their writing had improved too in the
second cycle. In the two cycles, there were no students categorized into very
poor level.