shape, expression, and also the way of talking.
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The writers can describe about everyone, it can be started by describing the parents, brothers, sisters, teachers,
friends, etc. Here is the example of descriptive text in describing people:
The Muse Live Concert It is the Muse concert, live from Senayan.Thousands of young people are
now gathering to see the concert. They are ready to listen to the music. Now, their eyes are on the empty stage. A very big and bright lamp
on the stage is on. It’s beautiful.
One by one the group members are walking to the stage. Matt Bellamy is wearing a black T-shirt and black jeans. He has an oval face. Christ is behind him.
He is wearing a red polo shirt and blue jeans. And Dominic is walking side by side with Christ. They are waving their hands and smiling. Everybody is shouting
and calling their names. This is amazing.
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C. Clustering Technique
1. Definition of Clustering Technique
Before the writer implements the clustering technique into a descriptive writing, it is better that she provides definitions about clustering technique. If the
writer sees from the stem of clustering, it can be “cluster” which is similar to collect or generate or it can be expand. The term of clustering is a technique used
in the process of writing when students do a prewriting to get the ideas. It means that clustering is done before starting to write an overall written. Students can
easily start their writing by generating the ideas first using clustering technique. Most of students know about anything of what they want to say, but they are
impeded by how to say or serve the ideas that come into their mind. Therefore, the writer believes that clustering technique is a simple technique but it is a powerful
strategy to generate ideas from the very broad ideas into specific ideas.
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Clustering technique is as a nonlinear brainstorming process that generates ideas,
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Regina L. Smalley and Mary K. Ruetten, Refining Composition skills: Rhetoric and Grammar, Fourth Edition, Boston: Heinle Heinle Publishers, 1995, p. 76.
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Mukarto, et al., English on Sky 2: for Junior High School Students Year VIII, Jakarta: Erlangga, 2007, p. 19.
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Jack C. Richards and Willy A. Renandya, Methodology in Language Teaching, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002, p. 316.
images, feeling around the relation of ideas until the pattern is visible. Clustering technique can activate the complex symbolic activity on the right brain called
writing. The right brain has capabilities in overall analysis; image-making, and synthetic, otherwise, the left brain has capabilities in logical, linear, and syntactic,
it can be said that clustering technique is a powerful mental tool.
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Clustering takes a role to contribute the right and left brain, so, it makes students to think
critically and help them to write a piece of writing effectively. “Clustering lets the writers see at a glance how ideas relate to one another.
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” By implementing a clustering technique, students can be stimulated to flow the
ideas in their mind. Ideas definitely comes in as a big topic, it is hard for students to expand the big topic into sub ideas. Through clustering technique, a big topic
can be narrowed into subtopics, and then, the subtopics are related to other ideas and so forth.
Clustering technique is suitable to be implemented in descriptive writing, because descriptive writing practice students to showing what is happening to
readers rather than just telling. Similarly, clustering technique also becomes a strategy in prewriting that leads to showing not telling. By showing a description
to readers, they can imagine easily about an object which is describing, then, contribute to use the five senses; seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, and tasting.
2. The Advantages of Clustering Technique
