The Use of Diary to Improve Students’ Writing in Recount Text

Abstract

The research was aimed to investigate the use of diary writing to overcome students’ problem in writing recount texts. The majority of students' writing issues stem from their inability to create and refine ideas. The diary writing technique is used to help students write recount texts better in order to solve this issue. An experimental study was carried out at SMA N 1 Gumay Ulu with a population of class X students consisting of 30 students as a sample in order to test this method. Pre-test and post-test were employed as instruments and measurement tests were utilized as data collection methods to generate data demonstrating the impact of the technique. According to the results of the effect size analysis and hypothesis testing, diary writing at SMA N 1 Gumay Ulu has a significant impact on students' ability to create recount texts. Students can practice writing more by keeping diaries, which can also aid in the development of their writing ideas. The improvement in students' writing abilities following treatment serves as evidence of this. Both groups received a post-test once the researcher had finished the treatment. The findings indicate that student achievement has increased. A significance value of 0.000 supports this. That is under 0.05. Finally, it was determined that keeping a diary helps students write better.