No. Class
The Number of Students The Number Proportional
Sample of 5
8 VII H
36 4
Total 8
290 32
Source: SMP Negeri 10 Jember in the 20142015 Academic Year
4.2 The Result of Try Out
The try out test was conducted on Saturday May 9
th
, 2015. The result of the try out was also useful to know the right time allocation for the writing test,
the instructions were understood or not, and the test item neither too easy nor too difficult. For try out test, the researcher chose one of the classes randomly by
using lottery to decide the respondents of the try out. The subject of the try out in this research was 10 students from VIID class. The test was about writing a
descriptive paragraph that consisted of 6-8 sentences about description of star fruit. The researcher gave the time for try out test in 30 minutes but the time was
not enough. The result of the try out showed that the students were able to do the test for about 35 minutes. The names and the scores of the students doing the try
out test were presented in Appendix K.
4.3 The Result of Primary Data
The result of primary data was obtained through writing test. It was administered to obtain the main data about the students ability in writing a
descriptive paragraph in the form of scores. The writing test was conducted on Saturday May 16
th
, 2015. It was given to the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 10 Jember with the total number of respondents was 32 students. In the
writing test, they were asked to write a descriptive paragraph with the realia given that consisted of 6 up to 8 sentences in 35 minutes. Moreover, the result of the
students writing test was scored based on the aspects of grammar, vocabulary, content, mechanic, and organization by using an analytical scoring rubric by
Jacobs, et. al. in Hughes 2003: 104. The detail relating to the result of the
analysis of the students writing tests and the result of the analysis of the students writing based on the five writing aspects are presented in the following sub-
chapter.
4.3.1 The Result of the Analysis of the Students Descriptive Paragraph Writing The students writing test was scored by two scorers. The purpose of
applying two scorers was to get the reliable data relating the students ability in writing a descriptive paragraph. The first scorer was the researcher and the second
scorer was the English teacher of seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 10 Jember. Both the first and the second scorer scored the students descriptive
paragraph writing based on the aspects of grammar, vocabulary, content, mechanic, and organization. The analysis of the students scores in writing
descriptive paragraph was done by using the analytical scoring method. Then, the obtained scores were analyzed to know the students ability in writing descriptive
paragraph of each aspect. The students writing scores which were given by the first scorer and the second scorer was described in Table 4.3.
Table 4.3 The Students Writing Scores Given by Two Scorers
No. G
V M
C O
Score G
V M
C O
Score Total
Score Category
1. 19 19 17 18 14
87 20 18 17 17 15
88 87
Excellent 2.
17 10 12 13 12 64
18 12 10 12 13 65
64.5 Fair
