teaching of writing at the school, and seventh grade students ability in writing a descriptive paragraph.
3.5.3 Documentation In this research, documentation also was used to support the primary data.
Arikunto 2010:206 confirms that documentation is obtaining the data about certain thing or variable in the form of notes, transcript, books, agenda, etc. In this
research, the data were the names of the seventh grade students at SMP Negeri 10 Jember in the 20142015 academic year as the respondents and the English
teachers lesson plan.
3.6 Data Analysis Method
Data analysis method is used for analyzing the obtained data. Arikunto 2010:213 explains that there are two kinds of data in a descriptive study, namely
qualitative and quantitative. Quantitative data are the data in form of numbers which can be analyzed by using some statistics formula and qualitative data are
the data which are represented in the form of words or sentences and. In the research, the primary data were in the form of the students writing scores of
descriptive paragraph; it means those data were categorized as quantitative data.
The primary data were analyzed statistically by using the following formula.
1. The formula for calculating the students writing ability:
Notes: M
: The students descriptive paragraph writing ability Ʃn
: The sum of all scores which the students get N
: The total number of students who take the test Adapted from Gay, et. al., 2011:323
M = Ʃn
N
2. The formula for calculating the students writing ability in each aspect:
E=
x N
n
100 Notes:
E : The students’ writing ability
n : The students score of each aspect obtained by the students
N : The total score of each aspect of writing
Adapted from Ali, 2002: 186
In this research, the scores of the students descriptive paragraph writing and each aspect of writing were classified by using the levels of writing score
proposed by Depdiknas in the following table:
Table 3.2 The Classification of Writing Score Level
Range of Score Category
81-100 Excellent
70-80 Good
60-69 Fair
26-59 Poor
0-25 Failed
Adapted from Depdiknas, 2006:12
The steps of analyzing the data were as follows: 1.
Scoring the students work on writing a descriptive paragraph of each indicator by using the scoring rubric proposed by Jacobs et. al.
2. Finding the final scores of the students writing test by adding the two
scores then divided by two. 3.
Finding out the students ability in writing descriptive paragraph by using realia.
4. Finding out the students ability in writing descriptive paragraph by using
realia of each score classification. 5.
Classifying the students ability in writing descriptive paragraph by using realia based on the classification of writing score category.
6. Drawing a conclusion to answer the research problem.
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IV. RESEARCH RESULT AND DATA ANALYSIS
