Improving Writing Ability in English Language for Students at the Faculty of Economics UMN Al-Washliyah Medan

The study aims to describe the development of writing skills by students majoring in management and it is a classroom action research, in which there are 47 participants. The results show during pre-test 11 out of 35 students obtain a sufficient score category (that is, 74.47) and the level of English writing ability planned in the study was > 85%. For post-test, there are 11 out of 37 students reach 23.40 and their level is > 85%. The average scores during pre-test are 74.66 in cycle I and 82.49 in cycle II but during post-test, the average scores are 73.53 in cycle I and 100.00 in cycle II; hence, there are 87.5% of the participants in the category of "very good". Keywords: Cycle I, cycle II, writing ability, English