I-Search Paper towards Writing Ability of Students with High Self-Engagement

This article concerns with the effect of I-Search Paper towards writing ability of students with high self-engagement at Junior High School. It was quasi experimental research by using two classes which became experimental and control class. The samples were two classes of the third grade students that were taken by using cluster random sampling. The main focus of the study was to find out whether teaching writing by using I-Search Paper produce significance result in writing ability of students with high self-engagement dealing with recount text. The data were collected through writing test and questionnaire and analyzed through normality, homogeneity, and t-test. The result shows that there is significance result after the treatment where the writing result of the students shows tobserved is higher than ttable in the significance level 0, 05. It means that the students with high self-engagement who are taught by using I-Search Paper have better writing ability. Therefore, this I-Search Paper can be an option for teacher to boost the high self-engagement students in learning and writing.