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2.4 The Previous Study
The research about mind mapping as a strategy in learning writing has been done by Niesa Novarina 2011 from State University of Malang entitled
Implementing Mind Mapping Strategy to Improve the Writing Ability in Recount Text of The Eight Grade of SMPN 9 Malang. The result of her research show that
there was an improvement on the students score of writing especially in term of content and organization by using Mind Mapping Strategy MMS. She compare
with the result of preliminary study which there were no students passed the SKM 75.0, there were an improvement in the result of Cycle 1 and Cycle 2. There
were 23.68 of students 5 students who passed the SKM 75.0 in Cycle 1 and 86.84 of the students 33 students in Cycle 2. In line with the students writing
performance, the students participation in class was improved as well. More than 85 of the students 34 students who raise their hands in every questions given
by the researcher and participate actively in every instruction given by the researcher. In summary, the students were more active and possessed the
motivation to write. The other researcher that has conducted research by using mind mapping
as a strategy in writing skill is Aisyah Karimatul Fajri 2011 from Sebelas Maret University, Surakarta entitled
Improving Students’ Writing Skill By Using Mind Maps A Classroom Action Research At The Tenth Grade of SMA Negeri 1
Boyolali In The Academic Year 20102011. The result of the research shows that the students‟ writing skill has been improved after the implementation of Mind
Maps to teach writing. It is proven by the improvement of the students‟ writing
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score from 73.6 to 83.6. Based on the research findings, she concluded that Mind Maps is effective to teach writing.
This research is similar with those research above that the researcher used a Classroom Action Research CAR as a method of the research by using Mind
Mapping Strategy MMS on writing text with Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimal KKM is 75.0. Meanwhile, the differencies this research with those research
above that Niesa Novarina 2011 used recount text in SMPN 9 Malang from State University of Malang and Aisyah Karimatul Fajri 2011 that only focused
on writing text in SMA N 1 Boyolali from Sebelas Maret University in the 20102011 academid year. The other differencies, the researcher used descriptive
writing at VIII B class of SMP N 4 Cibeber-Lebak that consists of 40 students 20 males and 20 females in the 20132014 academic year.
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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY