Color-Coded Graphic Organizer for Empowering Students’ Writing

This study investigated color-coded graphic organizer for empowering students’ writing. The main aim was to know the students’ writing after color-coded graphic organizer was applied. Following action research methodology, the study discussed the students’ writing from two sources: writing and questionnaire. The questionnaire result showed that the biggest problematic sentences was detail sentences, 76%. The writing result after the first intervention showed that the students’ writing were vary: their topic was written clearly and the details were correlating the topic; the orientation was written completely, the complicatiton and reorientation were organized well; their sentences were grammatically good except four students; their vocabularies were not very poor; their sentences were written in an appropriate mechanic. However, the writing result after the second intervention showed that there was a student who could not fullfill the criterias of good writing which were about content, organization, grammar, vocabulary and mechanic. In short, the writer could say that color-coded graphic organizer empowered the students’ writing. It linked planning stage with drafting and a writing product.