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7 to be independent in learning by arranging the jumbled paragraphs in groups to learn about information organization. From this activity, the students will be independent to identify the information which can be put in every paragraph.

1.6 Definition of Terms

In order to avoid misunderstanding, some terms in this research should be defined. The researcher will define the terms of jumbled paragraphs, paragraph writing skill, and the XA students of SMA Santo Mikael. 1. Jumbled paragraphs Kintsch and Yarbrough define jumbled paragraphs as paragraphs which are reordered as cited in Affar et al., 1991, p. 59. The well-structured text is reordered to create the jumbled paragraphs. Before the readers can read the text, they must arrange the paragraphs into a good text. The readers need to pay attention to the information to connect one paragraph to another paragraph. This activity is in line with the rule that a good text consists of smoothly-connected ideas Bram, 1995, p. 21. The researcher used the arranging jumbled paragraphs activity because it was a suitable method to help XA students in SMA Santo Mikael develop awareness of information organization. 2. Paragraph writing skill Paragraph writing skill is an important skill in learning English because writing skill is highly valued in education Weigle, 2002, p. 17. Thus, accuracy in writing is important. The accuracy in writing includes patterns of information organization accuracy Brown, 2001, p. 335. The XA students in SMA Santo 8 Mikael needed to improve their paragraph writing skill related to organizing information. The researcher would help the students to develop their awareness of information organization, so that they were able to structure the paragraphs based on the patterns of organization. 3. The XA students of SMA Santo Mikael SMA Santo Mikael is located in Warak, Sleman. One of the classes in SMA Santo Mikael is XA. There were 15 students in XA in academic year 20112012. All of the students found difficulties in organizing information when they wrote a text. Therefore, arranging jumbled paragraphs activity is expected to help the students develop paragraph writing skill related to the information organization.

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