Short Writing: an Alternative to Improve Students’ Writing Skills  

Oleh:

Kurniawan, Yulius Trianto

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The 62st TEFLIN International Conference: Teaching and Assessing L2 Learners in the 21st Century, Denpasar, 14-16th September 2015, Book 2, page 555-562.
Topik: Writing; Teaching Writing; Writing Skill
Fulltext: hal 555.pdf (15.04MB)

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Recent practices in teaching writing in Indonesia require students to write more. This is in line with the notion that more practice improves English mastery. As far as it goes, originality becomes the problem with this approach. In Indonesian context, it is quite common to find university students to cut-and-paste articles from the internet and claim ownership of them. Despite threats and punishments applied for such act of plagiarism, it seems the trespassers still have more tricks up their sleeves. As the results, this tendency makes it difficult for lecturers to assess the real capability of the students. Some countermeasures focused more on preventing plagiarism tools, such as utilizing web-based turnitin.com. Despite of the high accuracy in measuring plagiarism, it is doubtful that utilizing such tools would actually help in enhancing students’ writing capability. Other countermeasures focused on improving students’ writing capability by adapting old ways such as using handwriting. However, with this type of old ways, plagiarism is still doable though the plagiarists need to write manually. This paper aims to present short-writing; an alternative for the improving the students’ capability in writing while at the same time fighting against plagiarism. Practice shows that exercising short writing allows students to exercise their actual writing skills and prevent plagiarism at the same time. As such, improvements in writing skills can be expected.

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