Menyusun teks khusus dalam bentuk pemberitahuan (announcement), lisan dan tulis, pendek dan sederhana, dengan memperhatikan fungsi sosial, struktur teks, dan unsur kebahasaan, secara benar dan sesuai konteks.
Unit 1 : Announcement
Story Board Writing
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Students are asked to make an announcement text.
Teks pemberitahuan (announcement).
Announcement examples
Written test. Student have to make announcement text using Story Board Images.
There is such a lot of writing to do at university that it is worth finding the point of enjoyment in writing as a process. This is easier if:
You give yourself enough time to write up your work so that you are not always rushing to meet deadlines.
You break writing tasks down into several stages with their own deadlines. This is easier than trying to write the perfect essay or report first time.
You regard writing as a craft. Write several drafts. Aim to make each successive draft better than the previous one.
Familiarise yourself with the style and conventions of your subject. Take pride in producing a piece of writing that is good by the standards of your own subject.
Define the task
Spend time working out exactly what is required by the assignment title. The title will usually include a question that you must answer. Think through:
Why was this particular title or assignment set?
What are your tutors expecting that you will research?
What issues do they intend you to cover?
What theories, research and evidence do they expect you to refer to?
What recent research or articles have been published on this subject?
What methodologies are your tutors expecting you to use to demonstrate that you understand how to apply these?
Plan the assignment tasks
Use the word limit and the assignment title to guide you in how much you need to read of each book and article recommended.
Make a list of all the steps you need to take in order to finish the writing task. Work out how long each will take you. Each step will probably take longer than you think so plan for this.
Write each task into your diary so you know when it will be done.
Make an outline plan for your writing
It takes time to rewrite each draft of your writing. The more you have to change, the longer it will take. This makes it worthwhile to develop a detailed outline of your writing. If you do this straight onto the computer, you can reorganise the plan on screen, and progressively build on this until you complete your final draft.
Stages in the writing process
These will vary but the following steps offer a basic outline:
Work out what your conclusion is and write it down.
Brainstorm initial ideas onto the computer.
Organise these into headings with main points underneath.
Organise these headings-and-points into the best order.
Write in other headings that will structure your writing, depending on the nature of the assignment (such as introduction, conclusion, references, abstract, methodology, results, etc).
Allocate a word limit for each point - check whether you have enough or too many points for the word limit you have allocated.
Select the strongest points and save the rest elsewhere.
Write up your points - you may find it easier to start with the conclusion.
Read through and fine tune - check it makes sense, check one point seems to lead naturally to the next.
Leave the writing for a day - read and fine tune again
Print out and read aloud - look for typing errors and other mistakes: correct these.
You will develop your own strategies and find short-cuts as the process becomes more familiar to you. For example, some people find that they develop their ideas as they write whereas other people cannot write until they have worked out what they need to say.
Grammar, spelling and punctuation
Universities usually assume that you can already cope with grammar, punctuation and spelling. If you need to improve these, see student support services early on as these take time to develop. It is well worth improving these technical writing skills alongside your degree as they will be taken into consideration by many employers.
Hallo everybody, in this morning, it’s better for us to study English, because in the night we will have a good concentration to learn. It is not good if in the night we just watch television or use our mobile phone to open facebook, twitter, or whatsup. Right? But it doesn’t mean that I prohibit you to watch television or use your mobile phone. If you can use the wisely it is also good for you.
English material that we will discuss now is news items text. Before I explain it, I want to ask you, Do you like watching news in television? Do you like reading newspaper? If you like doing all those things, it means that you are familiar with news item, but what is news item text? Many students do not know what exactly it is. Although, this text is learned in senior high school, most of them still get difficulties if they are asked to write news item text.
Before you try to make a news item text, it is better if you know first ‘what is news item text?’. News item text is a text that relates to the news. There are two kinds of news item text, written and spoken. News that we read in newspaper is written text form. News that we hear in radio or television is spoken text form. This text also has the generic structure. Those are newsworthy event, sources and background events.
Definition of News Item
News item is a text which informs readers about events of the day. The events are considered newsworthy or important.
It means if there is an important event that should be known by many people, then this event deserves news. Well, the news text is called the news item text. However, if there are events that people do not deserve, then they are not definitely worth to be news.
Generic Structure of News Item
Main Events / Newsworthy event(s): it recounts the event in summary form.
Elaboration / Background event(s): they elaborate what happened, to whom, in what circumstance
Resource of Information (Source) : it contains comments by participants in, witnesses to and authorities expert on the event
Purpose of News Item
News Item Text is used to inform readers about events of the day which are considered newsworthy or important.
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To inform the readers about newsworthy or important events of the day
To present information the readers about newsworthy or important events of the day
Language Feature of News Item
Focusing on circumstances (using a simple language in writing the text)
Using saying verbs: “….”, She said, informed, told, reported.
Sometimes at the beginning of news, the scene is mentioned : Jakarta – … .. / Kuala Lumpur – …
Using Past tense in explaining news events. But if it is a fact that until now still happen or still in the form of fact, then can use simple present tense.
Short, telegraphic information about story captured in headline
Using adverbs: time, place and manner.
Uses of material processes to retell the event
Example of News Items Text
Didi Petet Died
Veteran actor Didi Widiatmoko, popularly known as Didi Petet, died at the age of 58 at his residence in Sasak Tinggi, Ciputat, South Tangerang, on Friday morning.
Didi’s niece Muthia Kautsar said that Didi, who starred in a number of comedy and drama films in the 1980s and 1990s, collapsed and lost consciousness when attending an expo in Milan, Italy, recently.
“He just arrived home on May 10 after attending the exhibition. In that city, he collapsed and lost consciousness and returned home in a wheelchair,” she said.
On Tuesday, Didi was taken to Bandung for treatment. Muthia said no diseases were detected but he died on Friday.
Didi’s body is laid out in his residence on Jl. Bambu Apus in Sasak Tinggi, Ciputat, South Tangerang. It has yet to be decided when and where he will be buried.
Types of reading skills in English: Reading is not that much favorable by most of the students. They find reading text books very boring and tedious. But without reading, no can succeed in their academics. Reading is really very essential for our academics. And having reading skills is too important for all the students.
Reading is not just starting from the first world and going till the end. It is more about understanding the storyline of the whole discussion. There are many ways of reading newspapers, test books and magazines. But do you know there are some types where you don’t need to read the whole page. With these types you can save your lots of your time. Especially in exams time, you can have many benefits of these types of reading.
Here I am sharing few important types of reading skills in English.
Types of reading skills in English
Scanning
Scanning types of reading is used to find
the relative piece of information that student intends to get. Scanning
is a very quick form of reading text books or other materials. Here
student reads text just to find out the information that he is seeking
for. When he gets that information, he just stops reading the text.
Students find this type of reading very helpful when they visit any education and career trip. He just scans his guide book to find relative information and closes the book.
Skimming
Skimming is like scanning and sometimes it is referred as gist reading. Here you don’t find a specific piece of information. You target of skimming any text book or newspaper is just to read the main points of the concept or news. Students find it very useful when they read newspapers and magazines. It is somewhat more complex than scanning because students need to memorize all the information he read. Skimming is not a good type of reading for ESL students who are learning English grammar.
Intensive
It is more time consuming than scanning and skimming. In intensive reading, students look inside the text. It is very important for ESL students as they can identify key vocabulary by the help of intensive reading. Students can improve their English vocabulary skills with this type of reading. It is totally classroom based type of reading and students cannot get its help in exam time. The text learned in intensive reading is not more than 500 words. It is not for long term uses because students forget everything after a particular period of time.
Extensive
It is the master of all types of reading. If you ask me then I will suggest extensive reading as the best of all other. In this reading, students read the information for their pleasure. Students read all the information given in the text because they feel happiness in gaining the knowledge. There is not limit of texts that students read. Student read individually and silently. There is no pressure of reading boring texts. One can read whatever he or she wants to read. Mostly researchers use these types of reading for a particular topic.
Here's a video that could help you learn the skills.
These were all the types of reading skills with which students can save their precious time.
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