DESCRIPTIVE TEXT ON THE STUDENT'S BLOG AMONG THE STUDENTS OF THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF THE STATE INSTITUTE. AN ANALYSIS OF THE GENERAL STRUCTURE OF STUDENTS WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT ON STUDENT BLOGS AMONG STUDENTS IN THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF THE STATE INSTITUTE.
INTRODUCTION
- Background of the Study
- Focus of the Study
- Problem Limitation
- Problem Formulation
- Objective and Benefits of the Study
What types of generic structures on the blog of the students of the English department of the State Institute for Islamic Studies (IAIN) of Metro. Why the generic structure types are always used when writing descriptive text by the students at Metro's English Department English Department (IAIN) student blog.
REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE
Prior Research
The latest prior research is that Michael John Kelly of the Curry School of Education University of Virginia faculty conducted a May 2008 study titled "The Impact of Weblogs on the Affective States and Academic Writing of L2 Undergraduates."6 described the result For students in the Blogging group, blog use did not seem to affect these affective conditions, nor did their overall performance differ significantly from the Non-Blogging group. At the same time, students in the Blogging group did associate improvements in their writing with using blogs.
The Concept of Blog
- The Nature of Blog
- Types of Blog
- Theoretical Foundation of Weblogging
- Advantages of Blog
From the above explanation, the writer concludes that blog is a contraction of the words weblog. Ablog is a standard example of web 2.0 technologies and is one of the easiest applications of the web.
The Concept of Writing
- Concept of Writing
- Types of Writing
- Stages of Writing
- Aspects of Writing
- Assesments of Writing
Writing is central to education.16 Therefore, it is not surprising that the government in many countries, both in developed countries (such as Australia, the USA) and in developing countries (such as Indonesia), has placed a strong emphasis on the teaching of writing. This means that writing is the first important thing in education, because the first thing when we get to primary school, the teacher teaches us how to write something with proper grammar. Brown also defines another definition of writing which states that writing is a two-step process.
Based on the definition above, the writer concludes that writing is more than picking up a pen and putting words on paper. According to Cynthia and Jia, narrative is the paragraph that tells about the story.23 means that narrative writing is the way to present a story that consists of events that happen one after the other. Based on the above quotations, the types of writing are divided into several types namely description, argumentation, narration, persuasion and exposition.
Writing is one of the four basic skills in English, the implementation of which needs some strategies.
The Concept of Descriptive Text
- The Definition of Descriptive Text
- The Process of Writing a Descriptive Text
- The Types of Descriptive Writing
- The Generic Structure of Descriptive Text
The adjectives "big" and "pure" describe "class".40 It means that the descriptive text is able to give detailed information about particular things in order to make the reader understand what the writer means. The presentation of the generic structure here is 15% because the writer does not describe about the topic. The above data shows that there are many errors of the generic structure of the descriptive text.
Now, I am a student *in Islam.. the writer should use it as a preposition but he did. Then, in text 02a elephants are the largest land animals in question, it is identification because it contains the identification of matter The writer tells about the phenomenon he wants to describe. That is why nature has gifted him with big ears to help him hear the pleasure of the sound of falling..”, because the paragraphs talk about the description of the animal to mention some properties. The writer has not understood how the structure in the general structure itself.
In the sentence They have very rich field...the writer must use many as the countable, but the writer used many. The sentence above shows that there is a mistake in the generic structure of descriptive text. The data above shows that there is some error in the generic structure of descriptive text.
In the sentence ..was built in the *ninth century..the writer should write ninth without e. Sanggam Siahaan.2008.The English Paragraph.Yogyakarta:Graha Ilmu.2008 Suprihatin ,Yeni, An Analysis Of Self-Concept Writing Performance Found On.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Background Description and Role of the Reseacher
Data Resourse
Data Collecting Technique
Using this documentation technique, the writer collects data from the students who write descriptive text on the students' blog among students of English Department of The State Institute for Islamic Studies (IAIN) in Metro. It is especially useful if the researchers want the respondents to give free thoughts, suggestions, recall the learned information or if you need detailed answers.
Data Analysis Technique
Approach
Therefore, the writer decides to choose a qualitative method to know how the students are the general structure of writing descriptive text on the blog. In this case, the researcher applied a case study because the writer wants to examine students who write descriptive text, especially in generic structure on the student blog among the students of the English Department of Metro's State Institute for Islamic Studies (IAIN). Through this research, the writer wants to help other researchers learn more about the generic structure of students writing descriptive text on the student blog, which is what the students always did.
Based on the above explanations, the writer used blog as a medium in the research, the writer focused on endeavoring to find a solution to the problem that came from students who wrote descriptive text on the students' blog. This step will be used by the writer to get a general sense of the information and outline its overall meaning. In this phase, the writer will note down and record the general ideas about the data.
At this point, the writer will categorize the elements of character education in the text and illustration. In this research, the writer applied the case study because the writer wants to explore the general structure of students who write descriptive text in the student blog among the students of the English Department of the Metro State Institute for Islamic Studies. In this case the students should use the present tense, but here the writer uses the future tense.
RESULT OF THE RESEARCH
Description of Research Setting
The existence of IAIN Metro is inseparable with the history of IAIN Raden Intan Bandar Lampung. 188, 1968 the long-distance class of Tarbiyah Faculty as Tarbiyah Faculty IAIN Raden Intan Lampung in Metro Lampung Tengah was decided to be a self-sustaining Tarbiyah Faculty as Tarbiyah Faculty IAIN Raden Intan Lampung in Metro. 397, 1993 on Organization and Administration of IAIN Raden Intan and the Decree of Minister of Religious Affairs RI No.
To comply with such stipulation, Dean of Tarbiyah Faculty of Metro IAIN Raden Intan Bandar Lampung consulted with Regional Leader TK Regent. The decision is based on SK Direktur Jendral Pendidikan Tinggi Islam No: Dj.I/220.C/2007 May 28, 2007 on legalization of performing S1 of English Major in IAIN Metro. In the context of IPO (input, process and output), TBI major of IAIN Metro can be briefly described as follows.
Therefore, adequate number of lecturers, control system and good assessment, applicable curriculum, good academic atmosphere hopefully become the interdependent elements that strengthen the educational process in TBI Major by IAIN Metro.
Description of Data Analyze
The description here, the writer did not show any of the quality characteristics of the writer. From the above data, it shows that the sentence raised in the ear, the writer must know about the other vocabulary. In this text, text 04a, tell about the identification "I live in a small house". Because it shows that the writer will describe about the small house.
This text shows that there is no identification because the writer only said that she does not like cats. The pretension of this text is 15% because the writer because there was a misunderstanding in the use of countable and noncountable in the sentence and also the writer does not tell about the description in the text. If you have a blog, what are the common mistakes a writer has made when writing a blog?.
How do you think the problem the writer did in writing the blog should be solved?.
Discussion
The table above contains the explanation about the phenomenon of generic structure of writing descriptive text categories on the students' blog. As a result, the researcher analyzes that there are two of generic structures that are infused in all the text that is in the generic structure of students who write descriptive text on the students' blog. The researcher analyzes that there are two kinds of generic structures that are infused in all the text that is in the students writing descriptive text on the students' blog.
In this case, the researcher specifically analyzed the occurrence of the generic structure of writing a descriptive text on a student blog among the students of the English Department of the Metro State Institute of Islamic Studies. When learning an English subject, students not only learn English or know a word in English, but also learn about the categories or generic structure that is in the descriptive text. Because there are two types of generic structure that students should master, namely identification and description.
Two generic structures before it can make us written becomes perfect in writing descriptive text.
CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
Conclusion
The writing descriptive skill is not only about transferring information to the reader about the description of an object, a person, etc., but also the activities of a writer to know the generic structure of the text itself, because it will make it easier for the writer to start writing a descriptive text. The result of this research is that students who used blog as a medium in the writing activity already master the writing process, especially in descriptive text. In other words, the good writing of descriptive text dominant within ten text on the students' blog.
Proper use of the generic structure will help the students become a good writer because the good writer always kept a close eye on the types of generic structure. Using blog in writing descriptive text is an invaluable tool, although they are understood, but there are some students who have not understood the types of generic structure.
Suggestion
- Table The Facilities in IAIN Metro
- Table Total Students in IAIN Metro
- Table Total Students of TBI
- Table Total Lecture of TBI
- Table The Penomenon of Generic Structure
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