Implementing Brainwriting Strategy on Improving Writing Skills for English Intermediate Level Students

The aim of this study is to improve English intermediate level students in writing using brainwriting strategy. This is a Classroom Action Research which consisted in total of seven meetings; two meetings for test and 5 meetings for treatment. The population of this research were the students who have joined English tuition on Intermediate level which consisted of 7 students. The steps of this research were (1) observing students’ difficulties in writing, (2) implementing brainwriting strategy and (3) writing practice using brainwriting strategy. The instrument of this research was using pre-test and post-test as the comparison of their scores before and after implementing brainwriting strategy. The results of this research are students were able to improve their English writing skills and became more active in the classroom through brainwriting strategy which is shown by the average score of pre-test (1,95) with not enough category and post-test (2,42) with enough category.