The Effect of Thematic Progression Pattern Toward Students' Writing Expository Paragraph

摘要

Writing is a complex skill to be mastered by the university students. This skill involves not only cognitive aspect but also affective aspect such as emotions, apprehension, and motivation. The objective of this research was to find out whether there is a significant different between the students' writing skill after being taught using Thematic Progression Pattern and Direct Instruction. The research design used is quasi experimental research. There were two classes in this research, experimental class which was taught using thematic progression pattern and control class which was taught using direct instruction. The population of this research was all of the second semester students at English Department of IKIP PGRI Bojonegoro in academic year 2016/2017. The sampling technique was cluster random sampling. Technique of collecting data used was writing skill test. To analyze the data, t- test formula was used. Through this technique, the students can develop their ideas into a good writing.