The implementation of sandwich graphic organizer in teaching writing to the tenth grade students of SMAN 1 Jiwan

&lt;span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"&gt;This research is conducted to explain the implementation, the problems, and the solutions of problems in the Implementation of Sandwich Graphic Organizer in Teaching Writing to the Tenth Grade Students of SMAN 1 Jiwan in the schooling year of 2016/2017. This research uses descriptive qualitative research. The participants of the research are the English teacher and students of X-A class of SMAN 1 Jiwan. The research uses purposive sampling technique. The techniques which are used to collect the data are observation, interview, and documentation. While, the techniques of the data analysis are: data condensation, data display, and conclusion and verification. The results of this research are &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;the teacher prepares syllabus, &lt;em&gt;RPP&lt;/em&gt;, and the papers of picture Sandwich Graphic Organizer. The steps are pre-activities, whilst-activities, and post-activities. Otherwise, some students get difficulties in managing their time, some students make mistakes in using V2 that is used in writing recount text&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"&gt;, some students get difficulties in expressing their ideas from Indonesian to the English language because of minimum of vocabulary, and some students forget to write a capital letter in the beginning of the sentence and full stop in the ending of the sentence. Then, the solutions of problems in the implementation Sandwich Graphic Organizer are: the teacher explains again about the steps of using technique Sandwich Graphic Organizer, the teacher divides the time of the students when the students should write the outline and when the students should develop their outline, the teacher gives the command for the students to open their dictionary to check the list of verb 2, the teacher asks the students to open their dictionaries when they are difficult in translating their ideas, and the teacher asks the students to pay attention to the punctuation when writing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width: 444.85pt; border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-border-insideh: .5pt solid windowtext; mso-border-insidev: .5pt solid windowtext;" width="593" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes; height: 63.4pt;"&gt;&lt;td style="width: 290.6pt; border: none; border-top: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; height: 63.4pt;" valign="top" width="387"&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"&gt;This research is conducted to explain the implementation, the problems, and the solutions of problems in the Implementation of Sandwich Graphic Organizer in Teaching Writing to the Tenth Grade Students of SMAN 1 Jiwan in the schooling year of 2016/2017. This research uses descriptive qualitative research. The participants of the research are the English teacher and students of X-A class of SMAN 1 Jiwan. The research uses purposive sampling technique. The techniques which are used to collect the data are observation, interview, and documentation. While, the techniques of the data analysis are: data condensation, data display, and conclusion and verification. &lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;The results of this research are &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9.0pt; color: black;"&gt;the teacher prepares syllabus, &lt;em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;RPP&lt;/em&gt;, and the papers of picture Sandwich Graphic Organizer. The steps are pre-activities, whilst-activities, and post-activities. Otherwise, some students get difficulties in &lt;span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"&gt;managing&lt;/span&gt; their time, some students make mistakes in using V2 that is used in writing recount text&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"&gt;, s&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;ome students get difficulties in expressing their ideas from Indonesian to the &lt;span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"&gt;English&lt;/span&gt; language because of &lt;span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"&gt;minimum&lt;/span&gt; of vocabulary, and some students forget to write a &lt;span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"&gt;capital&lt;/span&gt; letter in the &lt;span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"&gt;beginning&lt;/span&gt; of the sentence and full stop in the ending of the sentence. Then, the solutions of problems in&lt;/span&gt; the implementation Sandwich Graphic Organizer are: t&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;he teacher explains again about the steps of using technique Sandwich Graphic Organizer, the teacher divides the time of the students when the students should write the outline and when the students should develop their outline, the teacher gives the &lt;span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"&gt;command&lt;/span&gt; for the students to open their dictionary to check the list of ve&lt;span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"&gt;rb&lt;/span&gt; 2, the teacher asks the students to open their dictionaries when they are difficult in translating their ideas, and the teacher asks the students to pay attention &lt;span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"&gt;to&lt;/span&gt; the punctuation when writing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;