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Writing is one of the four language skills and it is one of the activities done by
etc. To be able to master these components, the writer must be involved in a learning
process. The process can be taken place in or out of formal educational institutions.
Writing is a tool for communication that is between reader and writer. In line with the
idea above, Olstain, (in Celce-Murcia, 2001:207) said that through writing, someone
reader or readers.
speaking, listening and reading. To support this idea, Weigle, (2002:1) says “the
targeted to achieve the functional level of literacy. Students are able to communicate
orally and written form to resolve problems. For the writing skill, students of eight
grade senior high school are expected to be able to express the meaning of functional
text and simple essay in the form of descriptive, recount and narrative text.
Based on the problems that exist in XI Grade at State Senior High School 2
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1. Some of the students still lack of vocabulary mastery.
2. Some of the students are still not able to write sentences in the correct
grammar.
3. Some of the students are still difficult to express the idea in the form of
written language.
4. Some of the students are still not able to expand the paragraphs based on the
generic structure.
2. How is the students’ writing ability which is taught without using Think-Ink-
who are taught and those who are taught without using Think-Ink-Pair-Share
Kepulauan Meranti?
investigating the problems above into a research entitled “The Effect of Using Think
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C. Method of The Research
variables where Think Ink Pair Share strategy was an independent variable and
ability.Frankel et.al (2012:12) says “in this research, the researcher actually
establishes different treatments and then studies their effects; results from this type of
(2006:179) said, “in an experiment, we observe and measure the effect of treatment
There were two variables in this research, the first variable wasThink Ink Pair
Share strategy as independent variable (x variable), the second was students’ writing
ability as dependent variable (y variable). The research design of this research can be
Quasi-Experimental design
Pre- and post-test design Time
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D. References
Reid, Joy M. The Process of Composition. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, Inc. 1988.
Rijlaarsdam, Gert, and Huub Van Den Bergh.” Effective Learning and Teaching
Writing: Students Involvement in Teaching of Writing. Effective Learning
and Teaching of Writing; A Handbook of Writing in Education. Boston:
Kluwer Academic Publishers.2005.
Woods, Peter. Successful Writing for Qualitative Researchers. New York: Rouledge.
2006.