my experience in writing 2

My Experience to Write an Essay

In Writing 2

            Writing an essay is not easy as free writing that we can write anything without thinking the rules. By studying writing 2 in this semester, I can know the rules in writing an essay. We need the certain process to create an essay. We have to involve three elements in essay: introductory paragraph, body essay, concluding paragraph. Besides, the best thing that determines our essay is thesis statement. So, in this essay, I will talk about my experiences in studying writing 2 with Mrs. Leni Marlina, the best essay which I have ever written, and the process of writing my best essay.

            The way of Mrs.Lina teaching is different from other lecturers. She asked us to write an essay starting from the outline. After I finished my outline, then I continued to write an essay that was based on the outline. Before I collected the essay, I should give it to some friends for correcting the grammar, the ideas, the punctuations, the unity and coherence. The way was very useful to create cooperation among the students and it could help me to write a good essay. Then I should publish the essay in my blog and I should get the comments from some friends. Because of studying writing 2, I created a blog that is very useful until now.  

 In writing 2, I had a terrible experience when I wanted to print out the essay that has been published in my blog, the printer could not print my essay as clear as I wanted. I tried to print it again, but the result was still same. Besides, I also had another terrible experience when I forgot to write narrative text, I just write the story map; I did not know my assignment was writing narrative text and the story map. My lecturer was angry and said that for the next assignment, I should ask my friends and used my ears very well. It was a lesson in my life to be careful and “peka” about the important things.

During studying writing 2, I have written some essays that have been published in my blog. Among all of my essays, the most interesting essay is the discussion essay, “New curriculum 2013 in Indonesia: deletion English as a subject in elementary school”. In that essay, I talk about the pro and contras of deletion English as a subject in elementary school. I think it is the best essay because there is coherence and unity between one paragraph and others. Then the topic is interesting and hottest; it is related to my major, English. The most important thing is the essay involves all of elements of essay. In the introductory paragraph, there is thesis statement that is obvious, so just by reading the thesis statement the readers know what I will talk about. I also wrote the conclusion and recommendation in the last paragraph. Besides, I also quoted some reasons and comments to support my essay.

To write my best essay, I had to go through many processes. The first one was I had to find the hottest issue happened in my country. At first, I chose the topic about “Giving zakat in Indonesia that causes pro and contras among the people”, but I thought it could not take the reader’s attention as I hope. So, I changed the topic became “deletion English as subject in Elementary school”. I thought it would be interesting topic because I am majoring in English and it was the hottest issue happened in Indonesia education area. I tried to find and collect some sources about deletion English. Because the issue happens in Indonesia, the sources which I found were in Bahasa and I found some difficulties to translate the quotation into English. Then I wrote the essay based on the sources, before I collected it to Mrs. Lina, I copied it and gave to my friends to get some comments and suggestions. I did the way twice because the essay that should be collected was the third revision. At the end of the writing essay process was publishing in internet through my blog. I also had to get comments in my blog because I should print out the essay including the comments as the “bukti” that it was really mine.

In conclusion, studying writing 2 with Mrs. Lina has given me many experiences and knowledge in writing essay especially about the process of writing essay. I also can write the best essay that I have ever written in majoring in English. I will keep experiences of writing 2 in my mind.