COMBINING THE USE OF FREEWRITING AND MIND MAPPING STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE WRITING CREATIVITY OF NARRATIVE TEXT

Isroyah, Isroyah (2025) COMBINING THE USE OF FREEWRITING AND MIND MAPPING STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE WRITING CREATIVITY OF NARRATIVE TEXT. Diploma thesis, IKIP PGRI BOJONEGORO.

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Isroyah. 2025. Combining The Use of Freewriting and Mind Mapping Strategies to Improve Writing Creativity of Narrative Text. Skripsi, English Education Department Faculty of Language and Art Education IKIP PGRI Bojonegoro, Lecturer: 1) Dr. Ima Isnaini Taufiqur Rohmah, M.Pd., 2) Ayu Fitrianingsih, M.Pd. Key Words: Freewriting, Mind Mapping, Writing Creativity, Narrative Text. Writing is a fundamental component of English language education, alongside listening, speaking, and reading. Writing plays a crucial role in helping students develop their ideas clearly and creatively. One form of writing that emphasizes creativity is creative writing, which plays a significant role in the composition of narrative texts. Narrative text is a form of writing designed to convey stories intended to amuse or engage the reader. Writing narrative texts requires creative writing skill so that the stories produced are more engaging and imaginative. However, based on observations in the 11th grade at MA Al-Munawwar, most students experience difficulties in writing narrative texts. Some of the problems include low interest in writing, limited vocabulary, difficulty in developing and expressing ideas, and the lack of effective strategies in the learning process. To address these issues, this research aims to improve students’ creativity in writing narrative texts through a combination of freewriting and mind-mapping strategies. This research employs a Classroom Action Research (CAR) approach, using interviews, observations, questionnaires, and tests as data collection methods. The results show that the implementation of the combined strategies is effective in improving students’ creativity in writing narrative texts. It has a significant increase in scores, from a pre-test average of 54.32 to 70.33 in Post-test 1, and reaching an average of 82.25 in Post-test 2.

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