English proficiency level. The materials consisted of subject-verb agreement, passive voice, parallelism, and clause. Tiered activities were used to involve all of
the participants in writing practices so that they can have their writing skills improved.
Furthermore, the researcher also supported the writing skills improvement of the participants by checking their work and by giving feedback. By checking
their work, some mistakes were found. Then, based on the mistakes, feedback was given. These actions made the participants aware of their mistakes so that
they did not do the similar mistakes again. The actions also helped the participants improve their writing skills.
CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD
This chapter presents the discussion of the research method in seven headings. The discussion includes type of the research, setting of the research,
subjects of the research, procedure of the research, instruments of the research, techniques of the data collection, techniques of the data analysis and the validity
of the data.
A. Type of the Research
This study is categorized as action research. According to McNiff and Whitehead 2006: 7, action research is a form of enquiry that enables
practitioners to investigate and to evaluate their work. This study deals with how to improve something. It is also in line with what Burns 1999: 30 says that
action research is evaluative and reflective as it aims to bring about change and improvement in practice. This research was aimed at improving writing skills of
the article writers ’ training of PLUSWRITER Company. Therefore, it was
categorized as Action Research AR. There were some actions conducted in this study to improve the writing
skills of the participants in this research. According to Elliott 1999: 69 in Burns 2010: 5, action research is the study of a social situation with the view to
improving the quality of the action in it. Besides, the researcher also conducted this study based on some steps. There were four steps in this action research, i.e.
planning, action, observation, and reflection, Adapted from Kemmis McTaggart, 1988, pp. 11-14 in Burns 2010: 8.
Figure 2: Cyclical AR model based on Kemmis and McTaggart 1988 in Burns 2010: 9
B. Setting of the Research
This research was conducted for English article writer’s training in
PLUSWRITER Company. This dealt with the writers as the participants because the researcher found some problems in the articles that they wrote. Based on
some considerations such as the number of materials to be discussed and the
