Abstract:
The objective of this study was to find out the significant effect of four square
writing method on students’s achievement in writing descriptive paragraph and to
find out the students’ difficulties in writing descriptive paragraph by FSWM. The
population of this study was the eighth grade students of SMP Muhammadiyah 06
Belawan at academic year 2016/2017. The populations were 301 students which
distributed in seven class VIII-1 until VIII-7. The sample of this study was VIII-1,
which was taken by purposive sampling technique and then was being as the
experimental group, and being treated by using FSWM. The instrument in
collecting the data was written test in the form of writing descriptive paragraph.
The data was analyzed by using t-test formula. The result of the analysis showed
that t-observed was higher than t-table (42,99 < 1.684) with the level significant
0.05 and the degree of freedom (df) = 37. The finding showed that the hypothesis
of study is accepted. It means that FSWM gave a significant effect in increasing
the students’s achievement in writing. The students’ difficulties in writing
descriptive paragraph by FSWM from the result of analysis stated that from
mechanism there were 79,4% students that got the difficulties by FSWM
