The Cubing Technique: A Technique in Pre-Writing to Improve Students’ Writing Skill

Abstract

In the context of teaching writing, students are required to get better result in writing any kinds of text. However, students are still encountered problems in writing, such as not all writing stages are done. Specifically, students did use a certain technique on the prewriting stage. Therefore, they easily faced problems in producing and organizing ideas, and developing them into good paragraphs. Therefore, the researcher conducted research concerning the use of the cubing technique in order to improve students’ writing skill. This research is an action research. The participants of this reserach was 4A class of the fourth semester of IAIN Kerinci. This research employed two kinds of data collection techniques; quantitative and qualitative data collection techniques. The findings showed that the cubing technique improved students’ writing skill. It can be seen from the result of students’ writing. It can be seen from the increasing of students’ score in cycle I, cycle II, and cycle III. Based on those findings, it was concluded that the students’ writing skill got improvement through the cubing technique.