THE EFFECT OF QUICK WRITE STRATEGY ON STUDENTS ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

This study deals with the effect of Quick Write strategy on students achievement in writing descriptive text. The method of this research was experimental research. The population of this study were four parallel classes of the eleventh grade of SMK Budi Satrya Medan totaling 124 students. Two classes out of four were taken out as the sample of experimental group and control group by using lottery technique. The data were collected by conducting an essay test of writing. The result of the test was analyzed statistically by applying the t-test formula. From the calculation, it was obtained that t-observed (7,125) was higher than t-table(2,000) at the level of significance (α=0,05) and df=60. It means that the application of Quick Write strategyon students achievement in writing descriptive text was effective because the result showed that students scores were higher after the treatment. In conclusion, it is acceptablethat Quick Write strategy gave a significant effect on students achievement in writing descriptive text.