it is free for them to write or organize all their ideas as long as it is related to the topic.
Step 4:
Ask the students to write the first draft based on the design of clustering technique samples that have been made on the whiteboard to know that students
have easy when started to write by using clustering technique.
Step 5: After the students are able to use clustering technique, give them a topic
about personal recount text that referred to their own experience. Then ask them to make their own clustering and leads the students to make the clustering of the
topic given. Last, give the students an evaluation to check their ability in writing recount text and to know their problem in writing.
D. Previous Study
Clustering technique has been tried and adopted in a wide spectrum of educational contexts. The first previous study is taken from a journal research
which is conducted by Namik Kemal Sahbaz and Gozden Duran in The Efficiency of Cluster Method in Improving the Creative Writing Skill of 6
th
Grade Students of Primary School. Their finding suggests that clustering method in creative writing
studies, experiment group, was more successful than in control group. They used test; pre-test and post-test, and compared according to the number of the words in
written text, actual and figurative usage words, the usage of proverb-idiom, slip in spelling and the relation with the context.
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The second previous study is done by Ismatul Maula, a student in State Islamic University of Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta. Her study is about The
Importance of Clustering Technique in Teaching Writing of Narrative Text at the Tenth Grade of SMA PGRI 56 Ciputat. The focus in her study is to find out the
implementation of the clustering technique, the teaching preparation made by the English teacher, and the instructional material used in writing of narrative text.
This study is categorized as an experimental research, because it is intended to
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Namik Kemal Sahbaz and Gozden Duran in The Efficiency of Cluster Method in Improving the Creative Writing Skill of 6
th
Grade Students of Primary School. Academic Journals: 2011, Educational Research and Reviews. Vol. 6, p. 702-709.
know the effectiveness of clustering technique at tenth grade of SMA PGRI 56 Ciputat. This research is also included in quantitative research because the
researcher used some numerical data which analyzed statistically. Her finding shows that most of students who learned writing through clustering technique got
higher score than the students who learned without it.
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The third previous study is done by Sari Nur’aini a student in State Islamic University of Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta. In her study The Effectiveness of Using
Clustering Technique towards Students’ Descriptive Writing, she used quasi- experimental research which gave pre-test and post-test to the students in order to
know the significance results of the experimental and controlled class. The result of this study is the use of clustering technique gives the positive effect to students’
descriptive writing.
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E. Thinking Framework
