Mid Semester Task

Learning Experiences

Octber 5, 2013

By : Elza Netri

          “Experience is the best teacher.” This old adage is suitable for me. I got many useful experiences during learned writing 2 this semester. So far, I have made 3 essays (Experience and Hopes, Narrative Text, and Discussion Text) as assignments that were given by Mrs. Leni Marlina, my writing lecturer. I had many problems in writing before I joined this class. After I joined this class, I thought my ability was a little bit improved than before. It was because of my experience in writing 2. In this essay, I will tell you about my learning experience and the process of writing essay during learned writing 2.

            I got many experiences by learning writing 2 with Mrs. Leni Marlina. By learning writing 2, I realized that writing essay needs creativities, imaginations, ideas and patience. Besides, I also knew how to make a good outline and a good essay. Mrs. Lina taught me how to make a sentence coherence with another sentence and how to make a paragraph coherence with another paragraph. She taught me how to make a good introductory paragraph and concluding paragraph. Even though she is pregnant, she taught us about how to write an essay hardly. She gave us many assignments, but I knew she did it to improve our writing ability. I have tried to do the best even though the result was not satisfying enough.

            According to me, the best writing project that I have done is “Narrative Text” whose title is “Got Lost”. I thought, to make this narrative text was not as complicated as the other projects. When I made that story, I was inspired by my own experience six years ago. I thought it could be an interesting story, so I began to elaborate my ideas on a piece of paper. It was not too hard for me to think about what I would write down on my paper because I only needed to tell my experience and then developed it. It was not 100 percent as same as what exactly happened. The real one was too flat, so I put some extra occurrences as the seasoning to make it had more sense.

              There were several steps that I did to make my narrative text. In this case, I chose free writing as the first step to make the story. The next step on making this narrative text was I asked my friends to check the mistakes on my written. There were many mistakes on my writing, but because of my friends’ help, I was able to know where the mistakes were and then repaired them. They gave me many suggestions to make it better. Next, I gave it to my lecturer. After I got her approval, I could publish it in my blog. In sum, those all were the steps that I did to make my narrative text.

                 In conclusion, I have learned many things about writing essays during third semester with Mrs. Lina. I got many experiences that useful for me and helped me to improve my writing ability. As the result, I am able to write some essays such as narrative essay which was the best project that I have done. To make this essay, I used several steps from the free writing until I could publish it in my blog. In short, writing 2 gave me many experiences for increasing my writing ability.