The Use of Fishbone Technique to Improve The Writing Skill of the Seventh-Grade Students of SMP Sila Dharma Denpasar in Academic Year 2022/2023

Writing is one of the productive language that students in all grades should learn. Preliminary research showed that most of VII B students at SMP Sila Dharma Denpasar in academic year 2022/2023 faced problems in writing skill especially generating and organizing their ideas in a descriptive paragraph. Moreover, the research objective was to know whether or not writing skill of the seventh-grade students of SMP Sila Dharma Denpasar can be improved through Fishbone Technique. Thus, to achieve the objective, the researcher conducted a classroom action research which was done in two cycles. The research instruments, tests and questionnaire, were administered to collect the required data. The data were then analyzed by comparing the results of the pre-test and post-tests. The findings revealed here were significant improvements of the subjects’ mean score from the pre-test to post-tests. As the supporting data, the questionnaire was also administered at the end of the last cycle. The results showed positive responses to the implementation of fishbone technique. Based on the results of the research instruments, it could be concluded that writing skill of the seventh-grade students of SMP Sila Dharma Denpasar in academic year 2022/2023 can be improved through fishbone technique.