The Impact of Brainstorming Strategies towards Students’ Writing Skill

Abstract

This research aims are to find out the impact of brainstorming strategies towards writing skill
for the third semester students at English Education Study Program of FKIP UKI Toraja. This
research employed quantitative research to find out the impact of brainstorming strategies
toward writing skill for the third semester students at English Education Study Program of
FKIP UKI Toraja Academic Year 2015/2016. The sources of the data taken from the third
semester students at English Education Study Program of FKIP UKI Toraja Academic Year
2015/2016. The students who are selected as the subject of this research consist of 15
students of class D. The instruments of the research in collecting data was written test. The
obtained data was analyzed based on generic structure of descriptive text criteria
(identification, description and conclusion), then classified the students score (pre-test and
post-test) and the last used T-Test to test the hypothesis. The result of pre-test shows that 4
students (26,67%) got good score, 4 students (26,67%) got fair score, 6 students (40%) got
poor score and 1 student got very poor score. The result of post-test shows that 3 students
(20%) got very good score, 10 students (66,67%) got good score, 2 students (13,33 %) got
fair score. Based on T-Test shows that to highest than t- table (5,631 > 1,785) so H0 is
refusing and H1 is accepting. It means that the brainstorming strategies have impact toward
writing skills for the third semester students of English Education Study Program of FKIP
UKI Toraja Academic Year 2015/2016.