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3. After Writing Strategy
In this stage, the result of this research showed that students in essay writing class preferred to review their work to look for any error in terms of both mechanical and grammatical errors. This finding is in line with (Alodwan & Ibnian, 2014) who proved that the editing stage could be viewed as the process of correcting spelling and grammar in a piece of writing. Therefore, they check and correct the spelling, grammar, and punctuation on their draft to come up to the final draft. Further, (Tyas, 2012; Tyas & Safitri, 2019) also stated that students tend to be actively involved in the
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editing and revising stage since they feel that it can improve their quality of writing.
4. Improve English Writing Skill
From the questionnaire, it was found that the students pay attention to their own weaknesses in writing. Therefore, they do activities that can cover their weaknesses by memorizing useful English expressions when watching movies. It is in line with the finding of a research conducted by Tyas (2020), it was found that by making the students aware of their own strength and weakness can motivate the students to improve their skill in writing. Further, the finding of this current study supports a theory about the importance of reflection in writing in which to improve English writing skill, the students should do reflection on their process. Reflection is an activity that requires the students to reflect on what they have learned during the writing process (Alves, 2008; Widodo, 2008). This stage aims to encourage the students to self-evaluate their strengths and weaknesses of their writing abilities. If their weaknesses are about English expression, they should do activities that can increase their English expression such as memorizing the English expression on movies or books. Movies give impact in five different areas of language teaching: teaching writing, teaching vocabulary, teaching grammar, teaching oral communication, and teaching cultural aspects (Iranmanesh & Darani, 2018; Ruusunen, 2011).
5. CONCLUSION
Based on the findings and the discussion of this research, the result shows that the tendency of students to use EWSI is categorized as high. This is one of the reasons that students in the current essay writing course get high scores. Apparently, they had been following the EWSI. Nevertheless, students still need to be encouraged and guided by the lecturer to maximize the use of these strategies to improve their writing. The lecturer is still an important part of the development of the students’ writing ability. Therefore, by knowing the students writing strategies, it will be easier to guide the students to be involved in writing activities. In this way, the students will be interested in writing lessons as well as the students can give their best effort on the learning process.Last but not least, it is suggested then for further researchers to bring this study to the next level of research method by using interview or test writing proficiency to enrich and strengthen the result of the study. It is also suggested to conduct similar research on the other level of writing class in university level such as paragraph writing, academic writing, creative writing, etc.
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