@misc{eprints58047,
           title = {THE IMPLEMENTATION OF MIND MAPPING TECHNIQUE TO
IMPROVE STUDENTS? WRITING SKILL OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT
THE SECOND GRADE OF MTS N 3 LAMPUNG UTARA},
          author = {1413042070 Dedi Hermansyah},
         address = {UNIVERSITAS LAMPUNG},
       publisher = {FAKULTAS KEGURUAN DAN ILMU PENDIDIKAN},
            year = {2019},
             url = {http://digilib.unila.ac.id/58047/},
        abstract = {The objectives of this research were to find out whether there was significant
improvement on students? writing skill of descriptive text after the implementation
of mind mapping technique and also to find out which aspect of writing improved
the most after the implementation of mind mapping technique.
The population of this research was second grade student of MTs N 3 Lampung
Utara in the academic year 2018/2019. The sample of this research was class VIII
A that consisted of 25 students. The data were in forms of writing scores that were
taken through pretest and posttest and were analyzed by using Repeated Measure
T-test in which the significance was determined by p{\ensuremath{<}}0.05.
The result of this research showed that statistical computations indicated significant
value of posttest-pretest was lower than 0.05. Therefore, the hypothesis of the
research which stated that there is significant improvement on students? writing
skill of descriptive text after the implementation of mind mapping technique was
accepted. The mean score of pretest was 61.92 and the mean score of posttest was
80.00. It means that the students? score improved about 18.08. It was followed by
content aspect with the gain 7.21 in which the aspect that improved the most over
language use, organization, vocabulary and mechanic. Briefly, it can be concluded
that mind mapping technique can be implemented to improve students? writing skill
especially on descriptive text.

Keywords: writing, descriptive text, mind mapping technique.}
}