BRAINSTORMING TECHNIQUE TO PROMOTE STUDENTS’ CREATIVITY AND PRODUCTIVITY IN WRITING COMPOSITIONS

Abstract

This study was pre-experimental in that it explained the percentage rates of content, organization, and various means of paragraph development achieved by the second semester students of English department in writing compositions. The findings indicated that brainstorming technique was best done to promote the students' creativity and productivity in writing compositions; the progress was 18.63%. It had been discovered that their pretest classification was poor and their posttest was average. Therefore, the progress was driven from poor to average. The findings also indicated that the technique was very effective to promote creativity and productivity to gain the various means of paragraph development in writing compositions.

Keywords

• brainstorming technique
• creativity
• productivity
• compositions