Abstract:
This study was conducted as an attempt to discover the effect of using
POW+TREE strategy on the students’ achievement in writing descriptive text. It
was an experimental research. The subject was students of eight grade SMP
SWASTA PANCASILA Tanjung Beringin. Two classes were taken by total
sampling which divided into two groups. 34 students in VIII-A as Experimental
group and 34 students in VIII-B as Control group. The instrument used in this
research is writing text. The analysis were showed that the scores of the students
in the experimental group were significantly higher than the scores of the students
in the control group at the level of significance μ = 0.05 with the degree of
freedom (df) 66, t-test > t-table 6,07 > 1,997. it means POW+TREE strategy has a
significant effect on the students’ achievement in writing descriptive text.
