Abstract :
The purpose of the research was to describe the implementation of teaching writing explanation
text by PORPE strategy to students of the English course and to describe the students’
achievement in writing explanation text by PORPE strategy to students of The English course.
The reason of this research was the students often have difficulties in writing. This research
was descriptive qualitative because the researcher observed the situations that happened
naturally and described it in the form of sentences to represent the data. The subjects of this
research were the teacher and the students of the course from English Course (EC). The
researcher used field note observation, checklist observation, and student’s task to collect the
data. The findings of teaching writing explanation text by using PORPE strategy to students of
the English course were: The first, the teacher gave motivation before started the lesson, the
teacher gave explanation text, the teacher asked about the text, the teacher explained the text,
the teacher asked the students to predict, organize, rehearse, and practice by writing. The
second, the students arranged the student’s own text and uploaded the text on instagram. The
student’s score described on scoring rubric and the students got good score in writing
explanation by using PORPE strategy