1ST MATERIALS

THE PROCESS OF ACADEMIC

WRITING

Yudhie Indra G S.Pd

STANDARD COMPETENCY

Students understand the notion of academic wiriting, identify the tone of academic writing, rethorical organization of wrting and also aplly these skills in writing academic discourse.

BASIC COMPETENCY

Students are able to organize a good writing

INDICATOR

Students can make a good organization of writing

LEARNING ACTIVITY

1. Brainstorming2. Choosing and narrowing a topic3. Listing 4. Free writing5. Clustering6. Outlining

1. BRAINSTORMING

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Brainstorming is the technique that generate ideas have choosen a topic and narrowed it to specific focus.

2.A. CHOOSING A TOPIC

The first step of any research paper is for the student to understand the assignment. If this is not done, the student will often travel down many dead-end roads, wasting a great deal of time along the way. Do not hesitate to approach the instructor with questions if there is any confusion. A clear understanding of the assignment will allow the student to focus on other aspects of the process, such as choosing a topic and identifying one's audience.

STRATEGIES FOR CHOOSING TOPICS

1. Choose the topic based on your interest

2. Topic that you chosed have lot of references

3. Pay attention the reader on the selecting words

EXAMPLES CHOOSING TOPIC

FOOD

SCHOOL

TELEVISION MOVIE

SPORT

ENVIRONMENT

2.B. NARROWING TOPIC

The scope of a topic depends on how much time and space you have to write and how much detail you are trying to use. For example, describing all the causes of World War II in three pages is impossible. You would have to either narrow your topic some more or write hundreds of pages to adequately discuss every cause. Defining your topic before you start writing will save you time and help you to research and/or to develop your thinking in a clear, methodical way.

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It is important to examine the topics we choose to determine whether they are too broad (or, in some instances, too narrow) for the writing assignments we are given. Once you have decided that a topic is too broad to be appropriate to your assignment (which is most often the case), you will need to have ways to narrow it. You will also want to consider, when writing essays that require research, how your research resources and limitations affect your choice of topics.

EXAMPLES OF NARROWING TOPICENVIRONMENT

POLLUTION

OCEAN POLLUTIONOIL SPILLS

EFFECT ON SEA LIFE

3. LISTING

Listing is a brainstroming technique in which you think aboout your topic and quickly make a list of whatever words or phrases come into your mind.

Procedures:1. Write down the general topic at the top of your paper2. Then make a list of every idea that comes into your mind3. Use words, phrases, or sentences and dont worry about grammar.

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MODEL OF LISTING

4. FREE WRITING

Freewriting : a brainstorming activity in which you write freely about a topic because you are looking for specific focus.

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Procedures:1. Write topic at the top of your paper2. Write as much as you can. Include: supprting items as facts, details and examples UNTIL run out of ideas.3. Re-read your paper and circle the main ideas that would like to develop4. Take the main idea and freewriting again

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MODEL OF FREEWRITING

5. CLUSTERING

Clustering is another brainstorming activity that you can use to generate ideas.

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MODEL OF CLUSTERING

6. OUTLINING

You chose topics and narrow them,.

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MODEL OF OUTLINING

That is the end of my presentation. Thank you for your attention

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