| dc.description.abstract | The aims of this study were to analyze the
senior high school student’s written communication skills on
the subject of chemical basic laws taught by using ELPSA
(Experiences, Language, Picture, Symbols, and Application)
learning design. The type of this research is descriptive
quantitative. Subject of this research was 33 of 10th grade
science students at SMA Negeri 8 Samarinda, East
Kalimantan, Indonesia that were chosen by using purposive
sampling technique. The written communication skills were
analyzed by using post-test. It consisted of (1) Ability to
express ideas; (2) Ability to explain observation results; (3)
Ability to communicate data processing and analysis; (4)
Ability to conclude research results and to communicate the
conclusions based on the data; (5) Ability to present the data
in the form of tables, graphs, flowcharts and concept maps;
(6) Ability to present figure of experiment equipment; (7)
Ability to specify the research variables; and (8) Ability to
present the model of relations with international symbols
and standards. The results showed that the written
communication skill of the subject research was 44.60,
categorized as sufficient capability. Therefore, there should
be further development and rese | en_US |
