help their students to know how to organize their idea. As we know that the students are just stuffed with the hard skill than their needs of soft skills.
The last reason why the writer chooses the topic of this study is the curiousity to apply tree diagram as a means of teaching writing for eleven grade
students of SMA N 2 Bae – Kudus in academic year 20102011. Especially the
effectiveness of the tree di agram for improving the students’ writing ability itself.
1.3 Statements of the Problem
From the topic mentioned above, problems that are going to be investigated are : 1
How is the use of tree diagram technique as a means of teaching writing for the eleventh grade students of SMA N 2 Bae
– Kudus in academic year 20102011?
2 Is teaching writing by using tree diagram more effective than teaching writing
without using tree diagram?
1.4 Purposes of the Study
Based on the problems stated above, the first purpose of this study is to know how the use of tree diagram technique as a means of teaching writing for the eleventh
grade students of SMA N 2 Bae – Kudus in academic year 20102011 is. The
second purpose is to know whether teaching writing by using tree diagram technique is more effective than teaching writing without using tree diagram.
1.5 Significance of the Study
This study can be made as additional knowledge to enrich our understanding of mind mapping, more on tree diagram. As a matter of fact, mind mapping is a way
to learn a concept that refers to the method of processing information. Moreover
the tree diagram is a diagram that is used as strategic decision making, valuation or probability calculations. The diagram starts with a single node with branches
extending to additional nodes. This method can help the students to organize their mind to ease their process of writing. Since writing text is the arrangement of
sentences, the logical order is absolutely needed to make a coherence in a text. Many English teachers are difficult to find ways to make their
students fluent in writing English. Some cases appear when they are teaching writing, for example the student who has a big amount of vocabulary could not
write very good because he could not syncronize his idea with his activity of writing. The writer hopes that this study can help the teachers to make their
students better in organizing their idea of writing.
1.6 Limitation of the Study
