a. Detemining the subject The writer chose the students at the eighth grade of SMPN 1 Ngambur Pesisir
Barat as the subject of the research. One class as experimental class and one class as control class.
b. Preparing pre-test The writer prepared the pre-test that was given to know the students’ narrative
text writing ability before giving the treatment. The students were given three topics, they were: The Legend of Tangkuban Perahu, Snow White, and Mouse
Deer and Crocodile. c. Detemining the material
The writer determined the material which was taught to the students, that was narrative text the topics were: Pinocchio, Lake Toba, and Golden Snail.
d. Preparing post-test The writer prepared the post-test that was given to know the students’
narrative text writing ability after giving the treatment. The students were given three topics, they were: The Story of Rorojonggrang, Cinderella, and
The Deer and the Snail.
2. Application
The writer conducted the research in five meetings for each class. The five meetings consist of several activities as follows:
a. One meeting is for pre-test. The writer asked the students to make a narrative text that consists of minimally ten sentences to know students’ narrative text
writing ability before giving the treatment with the topics provided. b. Three meetings are to introduce the material and teaching technique. In this
research, the writer as a teacher taught narrative text by using transition- action-detail TAD in experimental class and by using exspository in control
class. c. One meeting for post-test. The writer as the teacher asked the students to
make a narrative text that consists of minimally ten sentences to know students’ narrative text writing ability after giving the treatment with the
topics provided.
3. Reporting
In this step, the writer collected the data of the pre-test and post-test. After that, the writer analyzed whether the result of the post-test is higher than pre-test or not. In
other words, it known whether transition-action-detail TAD can give a significant influence of students’ narrative text writing ability or not. The last point in research
procedure is reporting. The writer reported the result of the research.
H. Criteria for Evaluating Students’ Writing
There were some aspects must be used to measure the result of students’ score in writing. They were: content, organization, vocabulary, language use and mechanics.
