ACADEMIC WRITING (Nur Saffana Saskia Kirana - 4B)

Name: Nur Saffana Saskia Kirana Class: 4B NIM: 2223210056 Last week, I made a summary of Writing at University and it turns out that writing is not just conveying ideas, ideas to be used as paragraphs. But, the need for us to seek understanding about it, then process it using positive thoughts, then convey it in words. Reading is the most basic thing to write. Reading is also a way to improve critical thinking. The ability to write is also needed by everyone. One of them, students to make the final project as a condition of graduation. If a student does not prepare the ability to read, write, and think from the first, then the likelihood that they will fail is very high. Through critical reading and critical thinking we can more easily create critical writing. Critical writing is different from descriptive writing, it is more scientific and has a lot of evidence. The first thing you should do is identify the problem or topic significantly. Choose the best topics that are releva...

  Name: Nur Saffana Saskia Kirana NIM: 2223210056 Class: 4B   Reading as part of writing      Reading is an integral part of the whole writing process, and therefore this chapter is concerned with helping you to discover new ways of tackling the reading that you have to do for your studies. One of the techniques of writing successfully in an academic environment is to be able to integrate the important points of what you have read into your own writing. To do this it is necessary to have a clear picture of what you have read, and this in itself entails active and focused reading. The tasks in this chapter will help you to work on making the best use of your reading, through examining different ways that you – the reader – can approach written texts. This is an important point to remember. Just as we have described and talked about different ways of writing, so we also want to introduce you to different ways of reading.   ·    ...

  Name: Nur Saffana Saskia Kirana NIM: 2223210056 Class: 4B In this second meeting, we discussed about the writing process. At first, lecture asking us about the definition of academic writing and we combined our perception about academic writing. I have read about writing process. For me, writing can not be one-step action because it take few steps to make only draft. For example, when we have something to write, we need to read and find information about that thing. Then, after found some information we write what we already have been thinking about that. After that, we have to evaluate and change (if there is any mistakes) it. Not only that, we have to revise and revise again our text. So, that’s why I called writing can’t be one-step action. The lecture discussed about 7 steps to success in writing and keywords in academic writing. When we write about something, we also have to be focus on the topic sentence. Every paragraph should support the topic sentence that there ...