Writing is one of the important skills in learning English. In learning
writing, that is need process to master it. Students often have difficulties in
analyzing and composing narrative text because they were lack of vocabularies.
To face this common problem there must be solution to improve the students’
writing ability through the available strategy. Therefore it is important to do the
research entitled “Improving the eighth grade students’ writing ability by using
Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC) strategy”.
In this research, the problem is “How can Cooperative Integrated Reading
and Composition (CIRC) strategy improve the eighth grade students’ writing
ability at SMPM 6 Wuluhan?”. The purpose of conducting this research is to find
out how the use of Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC)
strategy can improve the eighth grade students’ writing ability at SMPM 6
Wuluhan in 2016/2017 academic year.
The study of this research is Classroom Action Research (CAR). This
research covered four stages of activities, they are planning of the action,
implementing of the action, observing of the action, and reflecting of the action.
The subject of the research is VIII B class because their writing score still low
which consist of 28 students and to obtain the research data instrument used test
and observation. The aspects of scoring writing test are grammar, vocabulary,
organization, mechanic, and content. The data was analyzed using this formula: