SCIENCE WRITING HEURISTIC: TO ENHANCE STUDENTS' COMMUNICATION AND RESEARCH SKILL

The 21st century paradigm requires humans to develop various skills, including communication skills and research skills. In the context of learning activities, importance mastering is that students can express their thoughts, ideas, knowledge, or new information in form verbal non-verbal. developing activities stimulate critical thinking problem solving purpose this study was improve written prospective teacher at STKIP Bina Mutiara Sukabumi by implementing Science Writing Heuristic (SWH) approach. This used a pre-experimental method with single group pre-test post-test design. instrument subjective test essay consisted 14 items, details 4 items derived from indicators 10 sample 15 Sukabumi. results showed students' improved using SWH t-test conducted were 0.00 < α = 0.05, indicating approach had significant effect on gain obtained an n-gain value 0.456 for 0.501 which indicated increase both "medium" category.