<![CDATA[Background: Students usually get difficulty in how to start writing sentences if the teacherdoes not give the list of verbs they should use in their sentences. Their sentences do not havecorrect punctuation: they use commas and full stop without any good reason or there is nopunctuation where there should be some. Their writing ideas have not been presented in anorder that easily makes sense to the reader. The word selection is not appropriate with thecontext. The purposes of the study are: (1) to reveal whether PWIM is more effective thanGuided Writing in teaching writing for the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 3 Delanggu;(2) to reveal whether the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 3 Delanggu who have highcreativity have better writing skill than those having low creativity; (3) to reveal whetherthere i s an interaction between teaching methods and studentsâ creativity to teach writingfor the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 3 Delanggu. Subjects and Methods: The experimental research was conducted at SMP Negeri 3Delanggu, from November to December 2013. The sample of the research was two classes;those were V D which was treated as experimental class taught by using PWIM and V Bwhich was treated as control class taught by using Guided Writing. Each of them consisted of22 students. The data were in the form of quantitative data that were taken from writingtest and creativity test. The data of writing test were used to know the studentsâ writing skill.The data of creativity test were used to know the studentsâ level of creativity. The data ofwriting test were the scores of studentsâ writing test that was administered after having ninetimes treatments for each class. The researcher analyzed the data using ANOVA and TukeyTest. Result: PWIM is an effective method to teach writing for the students at the eighth gradestudents of SMP Negeri 3 Delanggu. Conclusion: The use of PWIM in teaching writing is effective. Keywords: PWIM, Guided Writing, creativity]]>
