THE EFFECT OF FISHBONE STRATEGY ON STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING ANALYTICAL EXPOSITION TEXT

The objective of this study was to find out whether there was a significant effect
of Fishbone Strategy on students’analytical exposition writing ability. It was
cunducted by using experimental research. The population of this study was
eleventh grade of SMA N 1 Girsang Sipangan Bolon, which is consisted of 4
parallel classes. Two classes were taken as a sample of the research. The class XI
IPA 1 was an experimantal group and class XI IPA 3 as a control group. The
experimental group was taught by using Fishbone Strategy, otherwise control
group was taught by using Discussion Method. The instrument for collecting data
was writing test. The data was analyzed by using t-test formula. The result shows
that the value of t-obseved is higher than the value of t-table. (3,69>1,701(α =
0,05)) with the degree of freedom (df) = 54. Based on the data analysis of the
study, the result indicates that Fishbone Strategy affects on students’ analytical
exposition writing ability.