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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Half Narrative-Half Descriptive

As every Wednesday’s meeting, this Wednesday we also analyzed someone’s paragraph. We correct and comment each other. This week, the material is about description paragraph. So, we have to make it and then we analyzed it. I found difficulty to analyze a paragraph I hold. Because it is nearly same as narrative paragraph. It present chronological order as narrative, but it describes a situation as descriptive, and I didn’t find the topic sentence. By this case, I realized that I’m still confused to decide what paragraph it is.

Continued by the next meeting, it’s on Friday. We were analyzing someone’s paragraph posted in facebook. 1^st paragraph is Riza’s. It’s about contrast paragraph, because it explains the differences of American & Japan. No matter with this paragraph because almost all have known about it. Moreover, it’s not a complex paragraph. So, we can easily decide what paragraph it is. 2^nd paragraph is fia’s. It belongs to confusing paragraph because there are many possibilities of it. Some say it is definition, some say it’s argumentative, and some say it is explanation. Oh, it was almost blinding me {how exaggerating I amJ}. I was just silent looking at the discussion because I didn’t know exactly what the paragraph belongs to. If I can, I wanna make one kind of paragraph. It is opinion paragraph, and then I will give it to Fia. Maybe just it my impression for fia’s paragraph, let me continue to Aini’s paragraph.  The paragraph is about cause & effect. It’s guessable because I found word “Affect” in the topic sentence, and it must be cause & effect. Then, we continue to Mega & Diny.  Both of them gave a good paragraph, so that they didn’t need to explain their paragraph. The last is Nisa’s contrast & comparative paragraph. Actually the content was not debatable, but she misplaced the colour, so that appears some comments about it. That’s all for this week…,

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Getting more understanding

Wow, my writing class becomes more exciting. On Friday, September 14, 2012, we were discussing about descriptive, procedure, comparative, and illustration text. Before coming to the class, I thought that the meeting will be boring, because all of people had known about how to look for a good text from the previous meeting. But, suddenly, appeared a funny text to discuss. And it made an exciting discussion,,, Why??? Because the text given by the presenter has been modified. And obviously, the presenter cut a main idea from each paragraph. So, that’s why it’s not coherence. But, from this case I get a new lesson.

• ·         We can’t cut a part of a paragraph if it makes ambiguous.

Then, we continue our discussion. It’s about Nita’s illustration text. At the first sight, I supposed that it’s a description paragraph. Because, some text describe Ganjitsu in detail, such as “The main decoration is a sacred rope decorated with ferns, oranges and lobster.”But, the lecturer said that describe isn’t only telling “what” but also showing “how.” How’s the shape/sound. And it must describe something in detail. Not only detail in appearance/in one side. But, totally detail.
            Next presenter gave me much knowledge about topic sentence.  She has a good paragraph, but, we don’t find the topic sentence. And this is the new knowledge I got

• ·         The whole first sentence is not always being a topic sentence. We can make topic sentence by our self. As long as it isn’t in opposition to the main idea.

That’s all my reflection. I wish it will be useful for us…

My First Impression

Friday, September 7, 2012 was the 2^nd meeting in writing class to discuss about paragraph. It was so amazing. All of students are enthusiastic to join this course, especially for this topic, including me. Do you know why? Because I get some new materials that I haven’t learnt before.

Actually I felt sleepy when my lecturer explained about paragraph in the first meeting. Because again and again I have to learn about paragraph. Yeah maybe it just like story that’s usually called by narrative, or describing someone/ something that’s usually called descriptive, and many others. I don’t feel upset when our lecturer ask us a to give (I mean to copy, not to make) and identify the paragraph. So, I did it in the morning before coming to the class for the 2^nd meeting. But, it becomes so interesting when we are discussing about paragraph. There are some students give confused paragraphs that are very confusing to identify. Such as a history in the form of narrative and an argumentative in the form of classification paragraph. Finally, there was an interesting discussion either in online class or in offline class.

In this occasion I just say:

وينبغى لطالب العلم أن يستمع العلم والحكمة بالتعظيم والحرمة، وإن سمع مسألة واحدة أو حكمة واحدة ألف مرة. وقيل: من لم يكن تعظيمه بعد ألف مرة كتعظيمه فى أول مرة فليس بأهل العلم

“The students should pay attention to the knowledge respectfully although they have already learnt it a thousand times. And who doesn’t pay attention to the knowledge after learning it for thousand times as their attention to the first meeting, they aren’t a good student.”
(Ta’limul Muta’allim book)