THE CHAIN WRITING METHOD IN LEARNING WRITING FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FACULTY STUDENTS: The Effectiveness

This study purposes in determining the effectiveness of students writing ability on
descriptive text being taught using the Chain Writing Method for the B class of Informatics
Engineering Study Program Balitar Islamic University 2020/2021 academic year. This
research is an experimental research, which uses the chain writing method to find out its
effectiveness from student learning outcomes. The population of this study were first semester
students of Informatics Engineering Study program which consisted of 21 students as a
sample. The researchers applied one group pretest posttest. The sampling technique is
random sampling. The method used is a quasi-experimental design. The pretest result done
by Informatics Engineering students shown the average was 44.19%. The pre-test was
conducted by researcher in March 2020. Then it can be concluded that their Writing
Descriptive text ability are not good enough. The results of data analysis, known that the
chain writing method is more effectively used in learning to write descriptive text for B class
of Informatics Engineering students. It has significance difference in mean of determining by
précising statistics of dependent T-test. From the calculating result of the t-test found that the
t-value obtained was 5,959, while the required critical t-value at p> .05, the level of
significance of the two tailed test is 2.086 (df = 20), p> .01 the two tailed significant level of
test was 2.845 (df = 20). The data results of this research indicates that there is a
significance difference in pretest and posttest score result. This proves that the chain writing
method is effective method in learning the descriptive texts for the informatics engineering
class in the 2020/2021 academic year.