Abstract
POWER (Plan, Organize, Write, Edit, and Revise) is an organizational strategy to produce good writing by exploring and reinforcing students' ideas through the stages of the writing process. This article considers an experimental study on the effectiveness of POWER strategy to teach writing viewed from students' creativity at one Senior High School in Surakarta. The sampling used in this research was clustering sampling with two classes as samples, namely experimental class taught using POWER strategy, and control class taught using guided writing. In this research, there were two instruments to collect the data: writing and verbal creativity tests. The data obtained were analyzed by using 2x2 Multifactor Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Tukey test. The result of the research shows that: (1) POWER strategy is more effective than guided writing to teach writing; (2) students having high creativity have better writing than those having low creativity; and (3) there is an interaction between teaching strategies and creativity. It means that the use of the POWER strategy is useful to teach writing.
Highlights
English is beyond doubt the most significant language in the world
Because the mean of A1B1 (81.85) is higher than that of A2B1 (74.08), it can say that the POWER strategy is more effective than guided writing to teach writing for students having high creativity
Because qo between cells A1B2-A2B2 (0.134) is lower than qt at the level of significance α = 0.05 (3.055), the difference between columns for students having low creativity is not significant. It means that the POWER strategy is as effective as guided writing to teach writing for students having low creativity
Summary
English is beyond doubt the most significant language in the world. The existence of the English language as one of the communication tools is to break down language barriers among people with different races, cultures, and nationalities. Learning English can support many fields, for example, education. In Indonesia, English becomes a necessity for students. They taught four skills of English, namely listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Among those skills, writing is a productive skill that is important because writing is a means of communication. Huy (2015) states that writing is the most Among those skills, writing is a productive skill that is important because writing is a means of communication. Huy (2015) states that writing is the most
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