The Effectiveness of Project Based Learning to Improve Students’ Report Writing

The aim of this study is to find out whether or not project based learning is effective to improve students' writing on project report to the students at English Department, Sriwijaya state Polytechnics.This research applied a quantitative approach.In principle, experimental research was conducted to examine the effect of the treatment that has been given to something.It involved three independent variables, namely the Project based learning (X1), GWP (X2) and the dependent variable is writing a project report (Y).The samples were assigned to put their ideas into pragraphs as a means to collect the data.It was obtained that the scores of the students' writing skills with the approaches project based learning and guided writing procedure were 78 dan 73 respectively.It was no doubt that the students' writing skills with Project based learning was better compared with the approach of guided writing procedure.