Improving your skills in writing short stories through cartoon visual media

Abstract

Learning to write short stories that are only theory-oriented makes students feel bored and even afraid. The skills of writing short stories for fourth-grade students have not shown maximum results. Teachers have not been able to cultivate interesting and fun learning because they only use the lecture method. The purpose of this study was to improve the skills of writing short stories using cartoon visual media in grade IV SDN Temaji III, Jenu District, totaling 26 children. This type of research is descriptive research with data collection techniques in the form of comparison of observations, interviews, and tests from each cycle. The data analysis technique used is qualitative and quantitative data analysis. Based on the results of research in the first cycle, students who completed writing short stories were 65% while in the second cycle it was 92%. So it can be concluded that visual cartoon media has been proven to improve short story writing skills in grade IV SDN Temaji III both in the process and the results.