My Last Reflective

The last reflective signify that I have finished writing all of kind of paragraphs. This week, we have duty to write persuasive and illustrative paragraph. It’s difficult enough to write them because usually I read Writing first with reading before writing, to get some guidance from that book. But, that book doesn’t serve the guidance for illustrative and persuasive, so that I feel difficult to write them. Then, I search how to write illustrative and persuasive from the internet. From internet, I can understand how to write illustrative. The way to write illustrative from internet is stating the topic sentence about what we like or dislike. Then, expanding the topic sentence by writing some reasons why we like or dislike it.  May be it’s rather different with the example of illustration that miss Vita gives. Till now I don’t know the way how to write illustrative like that. The only one I know is about like / dislike as I have said above.

Some guidance about persuasive that I get, define persuasive as argumentative. That makes me a bit flustered. So, I compose persuasive as far as I know. When Iswatin check my paragraph, she said that my paragraph is not persuasive, but explanation, because I only use imperative sentence in the first and the last paragraph. Then, Iswatin revises my paragraph by changing every sentence in that paragraph become imperative sentence.

How about you guys? Can you give me some widely explanation about illustration? And, does persuasive always use imperative in every sentence? Give me your help please….

Argumentative…

This week, we only have 1 workshop, but I think it’s same with 2 workshops. Why? Because the topic that we discussed is difficult. It’s about argumentative paragraph. Almost all of our friends feel difficult to compose that paragraph, including me. I feel difficult to present evidence and opposing argument.

This week my partner is Trias. I don’t know aright whether she composed it in a hurry or not, but it seems like that. There are many sentences must be corrected. For example she misspells beneficial. She wrote it “benefitial”. She also misuses of beneficial. She use beneficial to state noun whether beneficial is adjective. The most important thing that needs to be corrected is her topic sentence. Her topic sentence is “having pet should be a good effect for our healthy”. According to me, it will be ambiguous if we use that topic sentence. Because, it seems that there’s no good effect of having pet while we have already known that there’s negative & positive side of having pet, but only some people realize the positive side. And, the topic sentence should be “everybody should concern the positive side of having pets.” How about you the readers? Leave me your comment, please….

May be Trias’ problem is almost same with me, presenting the evidence and opposing argument. So, she has only 1 point, 1 example, and 1 opposing argument.

together being a good author...

I feel that my writing gets improved, because of this writing class. I really practice to be a successful writer because I have to write 2 paragraphs for this week. Actually it’s not a heavy duty, and it’s enough interesting. But, we need to enhance knowledge before writing. Enhancing knowledge about what we will write and knowledge about how we will write. That makes writing feels difficult, and needs more times.  This week also experiences me to be good editor because I have to review two paragraphs in a week. The first paragraph is Fia’s. It’s a good paragraph because there’s only 1 mistake in grammar. It also has a clear topic sentence, topic, and also concluding sentence. The second paragraph is Aida’s. It’s also a good paragraph because there’s no grammatical error in her paragraph. Overall, I’m happy for this week because I could finish 2 paragraphs in a week. Writing C class really improves my writing.

Where is The Conclusion???

Wow, this week is amazing because we had three meetings in a week. 2 meetings are as usual, and a meeting is as replacement from the previous week. The first meeting is on Monday. It’s held a workshop by discussing cause and effect paragraph. In that workshop I review Lalang’s paragraph. According to me Lalang’s paragraph is good, because it has clear and simple topic sentence. It has 1 effect and 4 causes, so the cause is more dominant than the effect. It also explains every cause in detail. But, unfortunately it doesn’t have concluding sentence.

Going on to the next meeting, it’s on Wednesday. The agenda is presentation. Exactly this presentation is the last presentation. There are 3 presenters, including me for this week. The first is Trias. She presented about explanation paragraph that we thought it’s a persuasive paragraph. What I’ve learned from Trias’s paragraph is that persuasive paragraph has to have something persuaded whereas trias’s paragraph doesn’t have it. It just tells the important of homework without persuading someone to do homework. Then, the 2^nd presenter was me. My paragraph isn’t debatable, because the topic, topic sentence, and the type is clear. But, the form isn’t as a paragraph. So, I have to modify it. The fault is on the placement. Before I modify, the paragraph has many subjects because every sentence is separated by a point. After that, I combine them all into a paragraph. And, it becomes a perfect paragraph. The last presenter is Zakiah. She has a more paragraph than mine. So, nothing has to be debated.

The last meeting for this week is on Friday. The agenda was workshop under the theme “classification”. I held Zakiah’s paragraph. She wrote the classification of rinso liquid. The deficiency is same as Lalang’s paragraph. It doesn’t have concluding sentence.

Again and Again,,, Be Careful!!!

First of all, I wanna apologize to Mrs.Vita for all of my mistakes, mine, or my friends’ that make her uncomfortable.

Well, I would like to tell you about what I’ve get and what I haven’t get yet. It’s started from Wednesday meeting. We had a workshop about comparison & contrast paragraph. In that time, I hold Ima’s composition. It’s a long a long paragraph that I proud of. Why? Because she can make it longer but the content is clear. She gives many points she compared, and she explained it in details. She just need little more careful to get the perfect composition, whereas my writing is really contrast to hers.  My paragraph is a short paragraph and only gives a point of contrast and a point of comparison. Also, it isn’t well organized. It still raises many questions. That’s what I’ve not get yet. I’m not able to compose a long paragraph, give some points in details, and organize well. I have to learn it more. Any suggestions?

Let’s go on to the Friday meeting. There are six students presented their paragraph. In outline, they presented about cause and effect, illustration, report, argumentative, and definition.  What I’ve learned about cause and effect in this section is: when we find a paragraph that explain about cause only/effect only, it’s still named cause &effect, not explanation. Because cause & effect can’t stand alone like comparison & contrast. Where there’s a cause, there must be an effect, and where there’s an effect, there must be a cause. According to me, there’s no paragraph that explain about cause only/effect only. It could be the cause is more dominant and the effect less dominant like Kajol’s paragraph. Or, the effect is more dominant like Ro’is’ paragraph. The next paragraph is illustration. When I read Aida’s paragraph about illustration, I thought that it’s narrative because it tells about someone. But, it’s impossible to say it’s descriptive because it doesn’t describe the person. It just tells about Craig john, doesn’t describe him, and doesn’t present chronological order like narrative. The next paragraph is report. Report paragraph is unlike argumentative because the content of argumentative is debatable, while the content of report is objective information that’s not debatable. Continuing to the next paragraph, it’s argumentative. I’ve just known that there must be a strong position in argumentative paragraph. For the first sight I read Aris’ paragraph, I think the topic sentence is “I disagree ….” because all of sentences give explanation about the disagreement, but actually it just for emphasizing. Well, the last paragraph is definition paragraph by Achy. It’s called definition because it defines pollution, although it mentions the causes of pollution like classification.
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