Writing is one of the important skills needed besides speaking, reading, and listening in language learning. For Indonesian language learners, learning to write in English is a challenging task to deal with than learning to speak, read, and listen. Good writing skill allows people to communicate their message with clarity and ease to a far larger audience than through face-to-face or long-distance communication. Direct written corrective feedback is one of corrective feedback which provides the correct form near the errors. The study aims to increase the students’ writing skills using direct written corrective feedback at Islamic Junior High School Al-Fajar Kandat. The research design of this study was Classroom Action Research (CAR) which is focused on increasing the students’ writing skills. The subject of this study is second-grader students of Islamic Junior High School Al-Fajar Kandat in the academic year of 2018-2019. The researcher only need one class to conduct the research which is consists of 29 students. In direct written corrective feedback, the teacher asks students to write a descriptive text, and the teacher will give them a direct written corrective feedback on their paper. The researcher states the criteria of success is at least 76 based on the Minimum Mastery Criterion – Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimal at the school. The finding of this study shows that, in the pre-study, there were 14 students with a percentage of 45% who got a score of at least above 76, and 15 students with a percentage of 55% did not get the score above 76. Also, the mean score of the students in the preliminary study was 73.1. Meanwhile, in the cycle test, there were 29 students got success with a percentage of 100% and the mean score of the students on the cycle was 81.7. So, the result shows that 29 of the students are successfully achieved a score of at least 76 based on the Minimum Mastery Criterion – Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimal (KKM). It means that using direct written corrective feedback can increase students’ writing skills.

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