grammar or the changes of verb, but the students exactly applied the changes of the verb in written from such as writing on blog.
A blog is where many people post a message and other people can comment on it. Because of a possibility to place “Comments” teachers can
consider a blog to be interactive. Blogs help us to improve our writing skills. If students start to write a blog, all of a sudden they get into the habit of
improving their writing skills and style. The students may feel that they are going to be criticized if they make a mistake. This fear is a big step that will
make them motivated for improving their accuracy and complexity in writing skills.
5
Most people start blogging just for expressing their personal opinions. Later on some begin to take an interest in searching for various ways by which
they can earn income from it. Gradually they start making income by implementing search engine optimization techniques combined with the usage
of advertisements along with blog.
6
The writer believed that writing on blog students were challenged to think about their accuracy and complexity in writing. Most of the blogging
tools help students to easily share the contents with social media like Facebook, Twitter, Linkedln, Google Plus, Pinterest, Instagram, etc. The
writer expects, will give motivation and give the passive students more opportunities to express their opinions and feeling. In writing blog students
can remember or recall experience; it means that they will also remember that they have to use the past form to write their writing.
Another important feature of a blog is its easiness to update its content at any time students want. The only option available for an update was to
publish another edition. It can be analyzed that the emergence of internet and the development of World Wide made a drastic change in the way an author
can approach the whole process of writing.
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5
Brad Hill, Blogging for Dummies, Canada: Wiley Publishing Inc, 2006 p.26
6
Ibid
7
Reji Stephenson, 25 advantages of blogging for inspiration, 2014, Digitaldimensions4u.com
Based on the background above, the writer is interested in discussing this case under the title
“The Effectiveness of Blog toward Students’ Accuracy and Complexity in Writing Narrative Text
” A Quasi Experimental Research at the Eleven Grade Students of SMA Daar El-
Qolam Gintung, Jayanti, Tangerang Banten.
B. Identification of the Problem
Based on the background of the study about the using blog to improve students’ accuracy and complexity in writing narrative text, the writer
identified some conditions that promote the research problem there are:
1. The students have low motivation in learning narrative writing. 2.
The students don’t have much opportunities to share their ideas or opinions when discuss and learning English,
3. Traditional teaching method which focuses only on teacher’s
performance is not effective to encourage students’ autonomous
learning demanded by the curriculum. 4. Students did not aware or know how to write with accuracy and
complexity.
C. Limitation of the problem
The writer limits the discussion on accuracy and complexity students in narrative writing through blog at eleven grade of SMA Daar El-Qolam
Gintung, Jayanti, Tangerang, Banten. Is there any significant effect of blog toward
students’ accuracy and complexity in writing narrative text? The writer intends to know whether blog can help students’ accuracy and complexity in
writing narrative text.
D. Formulation of the Problem
To make the study easier to be understood, the writer would like to formulate the problem as follow:
“is blog effective toward students’ accuracy
and complexity in writing narrative text at eleven grade of SMA Daar El- Qolam Excellent Class?
”
E. Objective of the Study
The objective of this study is to find out the effect of blog toward students’
accuracy and complexity in writing narrative text.
F. Significance of the Study
The writer conducts this “The Effectiveness of Blog on Students’ Accuracy and Complexity in Writing Narrative Text
” because the writer hopes that the result of the study will become useful information for English teachers
in considering and choosing effective medium or activity in teaching writing to their students. The writer also hopes that this study will give the students a
description of new media that can be useful in increasing their reading ability and their motivation in writing. In addition, for the writer, the result can be a
proof whether using blog can improve students understanding or not.
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CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
A. Writing
Writing is the most complex skill among other language skills because in writing students need to think hard to produce some words, sentences, and
paragraph at the same time.
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Not only do students need to think hard, but they also need to spell words in right spelling and properly punctuate the sentences.
Therefore, the students have to master all aspects related to writing and its component, also do more practices if they want to be good writers.
According to Rogers, he said that writing is not language. Language is a complex system residing in people brains which allow people to produce and
interpret utterances. Writing involves making an utterance visible.
2
Betty said that learning to write well will improve the thinking skills –the
ability to question, analyze, evaluate and make decision.
3
As Betty said, that writing is a process discovery. When the students write they will discover their
thoughts and ideas that lie in their mind. Writing opens opportunities to learn. Learning to write well also improves
our ability in organization skills.
4
The consistency of learning to write well brings us to become more efficient in organizing our writing from the draft until editing
process. The improvement of organizational skill of writing will enable us to select writing appropriately. By applying appropriate writing strategies, we can
increase thoughts, draft more quickly, and develop ideas more effectively. Good organizational in developing ideas help us in expanding our writing and avoid us
from blocking of writing.
1
James. C Raymond, Writing is an Unnatural Act New York: Happer Row, Publisher, 1980.p.1
2
Henry Rogers, op. cit., p.2
3
Betty M Dietsch, Reasoning and Writing Well: A Rhetoric, Research Guide, Reader, and Handbook Fourth Edition New York: McGraw Hill, 2006.p. 5
4
Ibid,. p.5
