Sunday, July 13, 2014

My Progress and My Experiences in Write Some Essays in Writing 2 Class


“Make writing became your habit! All changes in this world come from the pen and writing”. That was a good tweet that I ever read on my social account “twitter”. Every people had different hobbies, one of those hobbies that gave many benefits for people was “writing”. For example, by writing a diary, you can share what you can not share with your friend, you can get money and many experiences. However, not a few people think that writing is not easy. I think to write an essay, there are many elements that should be more attention by the writer. Such as new ideas, interesting topic, main idea and the sentences should be coherence each other. The important thing in writing is people having good mood. I got many lessons about how to write a good essay easy in writing 2 classes. In this essay I will tell about my progress and my experiences in write some essays as long as I follow the short semester class. 

In the first meeting, the lecturer asked us to give our own opinion about how to get score A in the writing 2 class. The class began at 13.30 pm. My lecturer introduced her self before studying. Her name is Mrs. Leni Marlina. After that, the lecturer asked us to give our own opinion about how to get score A in writing 2 class. Each student had different their own opinion. I think, to get score A in writing 2 class, we should read more. Reading many books could improve our knowledge and gave us many additional information. And also in writing, we should give our own idea, our own word and no plagiarism. If we used opinion of someone, we should state on  our essay.
 In the second meeting, the lecturer asked us to write two essays. First essay about “the student weaknesses and strengthens in writing “and second essay about “the student efforts to get score A in writing 2 class”. The lecturer's command made me confused and tired because I should write two essays in one day. And this is a Ramadan Month. What a bad day! But everything has changed since my lecturer teached us about how to write good essays easy and gave us some references and material about how to write the essay.
Although my lecturer asked us to write some essays again, it did not make me confused and tired anymore. I wrote the essays with happy and I enjoyed it. There were many ways that I did as long as I wrote some essays. There were two types of essay that I have done; narrative and discussion essay. I wrote the essays based on my lecturer explanation and I got some sources from the internet. The first way in write an essay, I wrote an outline. My lecturer always reminded us to write an outline before writing an essay. It would make me easy to develop my idea. After that, I developed my outline in draft. I copied my draft and I asked my friend to review it, so I could know my mistake and I might correct it before I continued to write in paragraph. That process called ‘peer reviews’. Next, I developed my draft in some paragraphs. At least there are three paragraphs in an essay, consist of introductory paragraph, body and conclusion.
Furthermore, I thought if I already finished to write an essay in paragraph my essay have finished, but it was wrong. The processes in producing good essays not finish yet; I should copy my essay and shared it to my group. I asked my group to review and give their own opinion or additional idea about my essay. One group consists of 3 or 4 students. This process called ‘group reviews’. What a confused process that was! But I enjoyed it.
After my group finished reviews my essays, I collected my essay to my lecturer and my lecturer corrected them. My first essay I got 80 point. That was a great beginning. My lecturer corrected my essay and gave her opinion. My lecturer also always reminded us “to get a high score you should revise and check your essay many times”, “it will make your essay better”. I always remembered that. According to Lauren Starkey (how to write great essays, 2004) there were perfect times in reviewed essay ¼ of your time prewriting and organizing, ½ writing and ¼ revising and editing. You could use concept mapping for explore your topic. 

In conclusion, writing an essay is not too difficult if I have the will and ready to change. Because of my willingness and my lecturer, my writing skill is better than before and also I can be a reviewer and review my essay and my friend's essay. I can do that based on my knowledge and my experiences which I got as long as I follow writing 2 class with Mrs. Leni Marlina. Moreover, to make your essay more interesting makes your topic flexible and interesting which use 5 w question; who, where, when, why and what. In addition you should use right word to convey your ideas, (Lauren Starkey, how to write great essays, 2004). And if you know the steps and understand what to do and writing would be easy and even fun.

12 comments:

  1. may be you need to write the source of quote in the fist paragraph.but over all your essay is interesting:)

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  2. thank you sis :) I will do for the next essay :)

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  3. you do not need to write "the first meeting or the second meeting",it looks like procedure text.
    maybe you can changed it,make a dramatically words,like "one day I had a writing class with Mrs.Lina.....".
    goooddddd..

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  4. thank for your suggestion sistaaa :)

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  5. I think you have a good essay, you put an expert statement on your essay. Please pay attention to your grammar.

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  6. thank you kak rilla , yaaa I will :)

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  8. i do agree with helza and ira, you should improve your grammar and read more to add more vocabulary. i think you should "show" the story than tell the story. thank you

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  9. I agree with them. In addition, you should write the sentence parallel to make your writing will be good writing.

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  10. You make a space between paragraph 1 and 2, but you don't make space for the other paragraphs.

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  11. I agrre with kak nina and please attention with your grammar

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