Creative Writing as a Best Way to Improve Writing Skills of Students

Pawliczak, Joanna

doi:10.17265/1539-8072/2015.05.004

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“…Pawliczek [4] wrote that creative writing could improve the ways of thinking. While the skills of advanced writing in the higher education were the important elements of academic performance, Kellogg [5] explained.…”

Section: Academic Writing Skillsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Promoting Education Sustainable Development Through English Writing Skills Performance Improvement – Case Study on Students’ Perception in Undergraduate Writing Course

Sela¹,

Putri²

2019

Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 1st Workshop Multimedia Education, Learning, Assessment and Its Implementation in Game An

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Academic writing is introduced to higher education students since the first year at BINUS University. A course named English for Academic Writing focuses on the development and improvement of academic writing skills in the English language of students in Global Class. The respondents are the students of Computer Science and Information System. Data was collected through an onlinesurvey filled by the students, and interview with the lecturer. The collected data will be analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively. This paper discusses the perception of students on the improvement of academic writing skills applied in writing an abstract, introduction, literature review, methodology,andreferences. The students mentioned skills such as citing, paraphrasing, referencing, quoting, problem/topic statement writing, finding/result writing were hard to be learned. The students practiced those skills manually and using the feature in Microsoft Words. The result will provide data and information about the improvement made, so the teaching-learning activities applied could become suggestions or feedbacks for the respective class and parallel classes. Therefore, this papersupports the building of students' capacity in English academic writing skills for sustainable development in education.

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Section: Academic Writing Skillsmentioning

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Promoting Education Sustainable Development Through English Writing Skills Performance Improvement – Case Study on Students’ Perception in Undergraduate Writing Course

Sela¹,

Putri²

2019

Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 1st Workshop Multimedia Education, Learning, Assessment and Its Implementation in Game An

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“…Writing is productive skills by using writings, and developing and pouring thoughts into a regular writing structure (Mulyati, 2009). A lot of research on writing skills, such as in the USA (Muslims, 2014), Malaysia (Togatorop, 2015), Malaysia (Pawliczak, 2015), USA (Siddiqui, 2015), the research States that are able to create awareness of the learner about the importance of writing in accordance with the steps writing. Writing skills that are taught in the students have a goal to achieve, such as advanced Abidin (2012) the essential minimum that there are three main goals of http://ijeds.ppj.unp.ac.id/index.php/IJEDS International Journal of Educational Dynamics December 2018 p_ISSN 2655-4852 e_ISSN 2655 156 learning to write in elementary school, namely: (1) foster passion for writing on a self learner, (2) develop writing skills learners, (3) build the soul of creativity of learners to write.…”

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The Development of Learning Materials-Based Guided Narrative Writing Skills Writing in Elementary School

Apreasta

2019

IJEDS

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Effected by the use of materials that are less able to attract students and writing less in accordance with the process of writing (pramenulis, saatmenulis, and pascamenulis). The goals achieved in the efforts of the development of these materials is to produce learning materials to write a narrative-based Guided Writing for teachers and students of class V SD a valid, practical, and effective. This type of research is research development. This research uses a 4-D model which consists of 4 stages: stage define, design, develop, and disseminate. Test the validity of the data obtained through the assessment of the response sheet teacher and students. The effectiveness of the activity seen from the students, assessment processes and results of narrative writing students. Based on the results of test validity, practicalities, and effectiveness of the materials obtained a valid, practical, and effective, as well as being able to enhance the narrative writing skills of students. It can be concluded that the materials to write a narrative using Guided Writing developed can be used in learning to write narratives in class V primary school.

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“…Learning models that connect subject material with the context of everyday life are certainly needed by students. The development of writing e-modules based on Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) is very appropriate because writing activities require material that is close to the environment and daily life of students so that student can be more attractive to write [11,13]. With the presentation of the material and steps of structured activity, it is expected that students will get the concept faster and be able to understand the contents of the description text properly.…”

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Development of Electronic Module for Description Text Writing Skill Based Contextual Teaching and Learning for Seventh grade student of SMP

Gujer¹,

Afnita²

2019

Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Language, Literature and Education, ICLLE 2019, 22-23 Aug

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Abstrack. This research was conducted to overcome the limitation of teaching materials in description texts. Students need teaching materials in the form of electronic learning module as one of learning resource for students in grade VII. This study aimed to describe the process of developing electronic module of description text writing skills based on valid contextual teaching and learning (CTL) (seen from the aspect of content, presentation, language, and graphics) and practical (seen from the ease of use and conformity with time). used by students in grade VII of junior high school. The theory used in this research were description text, Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL), elearning module, and development model. The type of this research was research and development. The development model used was 4-D (defining, designing, developing, and distributing). The subject of this research was the students in grade VII of SMP 12 Padang, which numbered 25 people. The research data consists of qualitative and quantitative data. Qualitative data was collected through filling in e-module validation questionnaire, e-module practicality questionnaire, and student activity observation sheet. Quantitative data was obtained from student learning outcomes in learning to write description text. The results of this study indicated that electronic module for writing description text based on contextual teaching and learning (CTL) which was created is valid, practical, and effective. This can be proved by the results of validity, practicality, and effectiveness of e-modules. E-module validality by experts was obtained based on the value of e-module validity that scored 93.83% so that e-modules are categorized as a very valid module. The practicality of e-module was obtained based on teacher practicality values which was 84.16% with practical category and student practicallity was 84.14% which was categorized as a very practical categorie.

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Creative Writing as a Best Way to Improve Writing Skills of Students

Cited by 22 publications

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Promoting Education Sustainable Development Through English Writing Skills Performance Improvement – Case Study on Students’ Perception in Undergraduate Writing Course

Promoting Education Sustainable Development Through English Writing Skills Performance Improvement – Case Study on Students’ Perception in Undergraduate Writing Course

The Development of Learning Materials-Based Guided Narrative Writing Skills Writing in Elementary School

Development of Electronic Module for Description Text Writing Skill Based Contextual Teaching and Learning for Seventh grade student of SMP

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