IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ABILITY TO DEVELOP IDEAS IN WRITING ANALYTICAL EXPOSITION TEXT THROUGH PROJECT-BASED LEARNING

Abstract

There are some aspects that should be mastered by students in writing a text. Developing ideas becomes the hardest aspect when the students write a specific text. The objective of this classroom action research is to solve the students’ difficulties in developing ideas in the process of writing analytical exposition text. Students’ result of project-based learning in the form of mind map and the analytical exposition text written by the students were analyzed by using qualitative study with the design of descriptive analysis. The subjects of this study were the students of X-1 SMA Kesatrian 2 Semarang. The result revealed that through mind mapping activity, students' writing ability increased. It was marked by students being able to develop ideas from the chosen topic in the correct form of analytical exposition text based on the generic structure with the average scores were 81,7. The Implementation of project-based learning models with mind mapping activity can improve students' ability to develop ideas in writing analytical exposition text with 2 learning cycles.