Improving Students' Writing Skill Through Note Taking from Reading Hortatory Exposition Texts at Grade XI. IA1 Academic Year 2010/2011 of SMAN 1 Baso

The problem of this research is the students have low skill in writing at the second year students of SMAN 1 Baso. It was proved by the students’ low achievements in their writing test in semester 1 of academic year 2010/2011. The purpose of this research is to know how far using Note Taking from Reading Similar Texts can improve the students’ writing skill of Hortatory Exposition texts and what factors influence the changes during teaching and learning process. The researcher did classroom action research by using Note Taking from Similar Texts at the second year students of SMAN 1 Baso. There were twelve meetings in this research with three cycles. Each cycle consisted of four meetings. There two kinds of data, quantitative and qualitative. Quantitative data was gathered by giving 2 tasks during teaching and learning process and a test was given at the end of each cycle. The researcher also found the factors that influence the changes during teaching learning process are variety and interesting media, affective domain, authentic material, facility and students’ motivation and talent. Based on the students’ achievement from the cycle 1 to cycle 3 and factors that influence the changes in teaching learning process, it can be concluded that there is improvement of the students’ writing skill of Hortatory Exposition Texts.