Expanding Idea and Finding the Scientific Words in Writing Essays

PAPER

For fulfilling the course of Scientific Writing

Supervised by:

Sri Wulandari, S.Pd

By:

Ariestya Rohmah

12020230112

KADIRI ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY

TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION FACULTY

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

June, 2014

Expanding Idea and

Finding the Scientific Words in Writing Essays

It has been known that English is an International language that is learnt

by all people around the world. This is why the need of it cannot be honestly

avoided anymore. In this globalization era, there are many reasons why it is

essential for some people to learn more about it. Many people say that learning

English is complex and complicated. From many skills that have been offered by,

proven that writing is the hardest skill in improving the knowledge of English,

because in writing also includes some other skills such as Vocabulary, Grammar,

and absolutely Reading. Someone may be able to be proficient in reading skills,

understanding good grammar, having a great fluency in speaking and owning a

good hearing sensitivity of English, but not necessarily one that can poure

everyting that he knows into writing. Many of them stop thinking when they have

already in the middle of their writing when they decide to start it, because they are

having some difficulties in expanding idea and finding some efficient and

scientific words to reveal what they are thinking on their mind. They also get

bored and confused. This is also the reason why there are only little writers than

readers appear their job in the world.

Proverb says “Writing can change the world”. It shows us that how great

the influence of writing. It can reflect that start by writing, a great thing can be

begun from nothing and impossible for some. It also can change the perception

that has already appeared to be more argumentable opinion and also through

discussed by. By writing, the writers can be appeared as the educated people so,

because there are many people are able to master in spoken language but not

totally capable in writing skills. By knowing those reasons, they are also

completely placed in the top rank form of smart people in everything that

connected with the literature of language. Another proof about how great being a

writer comes from the big Islam leader, stated that “If you are not a prince or a

great leader, you should be a writer” (Imam Al-Ghazali). From this quote, the

speaker tries to compare that the writer has the same level to the prince of a

kingdom or the leader of the country, he also tries to convince all people that the

ability in writing is a precious skill should be owned so that he has already quoted.

Writing is also the method of representing language in visual or authentic

forms. It uses some sets of symbols to present the sound of speech, and may also

have symbol for such things as punctuation and numerals. Outside speaking skills,

writing is also such a kind of English skill that can create relationship or

connection among people. It links one person to another by creating a means of

communication building without speaking. There should be some medias to make

it can be realized and visualized such like video, print out, audio, chat (written

conversation) and many others. Writing has also considered as something

powerful ability to inspire, motivate, change lives, change minds, and even change

history. Even if writing is not the one’s “thing”, someone probably understands

the importance of it. Writing is not fun for everyone, but everyone does it. Those

who write as a creative tool, do so to express their creativity, thoughts, ideas,

feeling and help others to learn something, do something, or just to plain the old

writing. Writing also leads people to have more reading, which led to more

learning about the growing list of concern. It can also find some people

passionately in inspiring to change the world, at least his own world.

Talking about writing, one of the kinds of writing product is an Essay.

What is Essay?. Based on The Oxford Dictionary, essay is such a kind of short

piece writing on one subject. It can put more consentration on what the writers

want to write only in a current case they want to be focused on. Wikipedia stated

that essay is generally long pieces of writing written from an author’s personal

point of view. Essay can consist of a number of elements, including literary,

criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life,

recollections, and reflections of the author. An essay has been defined in a variety

of ways such like a prose composition with a focused subject of discussion or a

long systematic discourse. Making an essay means that the writers are forced to

have a good ability in expanding the idea and making the writing can be

understood well and even more interesting writing by the readers. Knowing that

writing an essay is not as easy as its sound, there are some difficulties that usually

make the writers completely confused to start making it. They might own those

problems to start writing, if the writers do not enrich their knowledge, it may take

a little long time for them to think more how to make it to be perfect and easier for

readers to read it. Evenmore they can stop to write when they face the difficulty

and they have nothing on their mind to poure out into writing. Stuck out is the

worst result for writers when they already come in this phase at last. It can be

considered that they have already given up to continue writing. That is why, many

opinions declare and believed that “The more knowledge the writer has, the more

interesting writing he can produce.”

As mentioned before, there are two basically problems that can cause the

writer confused to start writing. The first problem that many writers are really

burdened in writing skills is when they have to expand the idea. Getting the topic

of an essay is an easy thing, but expanding the idea of its into long sentence and

long explanation is such a kind of a huge sword kills an iron for them. How can it

happen?. It can be truly occurred if some factors in order to improve writing skill

are not owned by them. Having more understanding of words formations, words

concord (agreement), upgrading the vocabularies and grammar structure are some

steps should be passed by them to produce a qualified and scientific essay. The

writers are demanded to know when they have to use the right word, the right

structure, and also the right spelling of words in their writing. Finding out what

we are passionate about, finding platform to share the passion, and keep writing

and repeating are also included into the sub steps. Invariably, the writers shift

topics and lose focus within their paragraphs because they do not know how to

develop or expand their idea. They only concern into one focus that is how the

paragraph can be filled by some long sentences, indeed a paragraph should be at

least half a page long, but usually no more than one page. How, then, if the writers

do not have enough arguments or statements to say. Instead of broadening the

focus, which will only be another form of topic shifting. Those problems can be

solved by illustrating the idea with examples, giving an authoritative quotation,

anticipating and responding to counterarguments, and brainstorming more insight

about the idea.

The other problems in writing an essay is finding the scientific words. It is

good for most writers to use some general vocabularies in their writing, but it can

be more precious thing if they can choose and analyze what is the most suitable

word that can be taken as the chosen symbol of writing itself. Another way to

keep the writers stay in their purpose of writing is looking up the expected words

into the current dictionary and they should be also passionately in reading more

information that connected with the topic being written. For the writers who want

to own a good and qualified writing, they should be creative and inovative

thinker. Creative to manage the words formation, words concord (agreement), and

even more about grammar and structure that is used in their writing. This step is

the most difficult part that will be faced by the writers, because this difficulty can

cause them to get frustrated and stop writing if they cannot manage the term of

writing itself.

Another step to find the scientific words is being innovative, it can be

translated by giving some proverbs or one’s quotes that can support the means and

the purpose of essay that is being written. In this case, the writer is also able to

add some suggestions or comments to support, explain, and manage the words

about the one’s quotes that have been stated to be the opinion. It can be some

count of proofs that the writers need to affirm and convince the thesis statements

of theirs that have been mentioned before.

Using proverbs is also one of the way that the writers can maximalize their

writing into the best one that they have already expected. The writers can play

around with the proverb that they have used as one of the proof of their writing by

adding and expanding opinion and changing the word formation to make it clearer

and easy to be understood by the readers. The writers can choose and analyze the

most influence proverb that support the thesis statements in every single purpose

of paragraph that is being written. They are also demanded to improve their skill

in managing word into a whole good sentence arrangements of essay. If they are

able to do all these terms, it is a certainty that they can be called as a good writer

because they can make a writing is able to connect people across time, space and

culture. The demand of writing itself can be totally delivered that individuals can

learn something from yesterday, gain knowledge about today and create some

plans for tomorrow. All writers might find many difficulties in writing essays or

other kinds of writing, such as journals, dissertations, even publish writings into

blog or websites. So, this matter should be realized that doing everything must get

the risk, either big or small problems. A science writing should be written in a

clear and concise style, its paragraphs should be well organized.

According to the whole expalanation the writer has already explained

above, it can be concluded that the ability in writing is such an essential part in

learning the language. Eventhough there should be many difficulties found, it is

deeply considered as the risk of writing itself. But for somebody loves studying,

he will do everything to increase his ability to make his writing can be more

precious and scientific as well. He can do research, survey, and some other

methods to strengthen his thesis statements in order to make the writing can be

accounted for its fact. The most important way to make a qualified essay is not

only talking about having many vocabularies and grammar textbooks, but for

those who want to master it deeply should pay more attention and get more

understanding in expanding idea to produced a good writing. They also should be

able to search and find the scientific words to support their writing to be more

scientific and make the readers are satisfied in reading it. The most beginner

writers do not think about how to adequately develop their idea, they usually

know that the paragraph needs to be longer, but they do not know how to expand

their idea to fill that length. Some steps that can be done are illustrating the idea

with examples, giving an authoritative quotations, anticipating and responding to

the counterarguments, having more evidence about the idea, offering another’s

perspective to the idea and elaborating on causes, effects, definitions, comparison

and the contrast can be the alternative to enrich and expanding a qualified

sentence in an essay the writers want.

The writer can also invite others to have the same perception as ours. By

writing, the writers also can change the world. It means that their writing can be

the great influence of their environment, so that they can convince to the world

that there is a big power of writing to develop. It can be taken some advantages of

mastering the writing skills. Such as allowing greater precision in communicating

ideas, allowing logical and other forms of complex thoughts. Another advantages

of writing are proving the fact that it allows for permanent records and it is good

for making reference, it can be very useful as a defense during legal issues,

which is something other means of communication such oral, strengthens and

clarifies a verbal message. An article or an essay can store many kinds of

information in many types of it. People, books and idea that give people a sense of

renewal for themselves, other and the world somebody lives in. So, known that

the basic principles of good writing apply just as well to the sciences as they do to

the humanities and social science. This paper focuses on the features of expanding

idea and finding scientific words that distinguish it from other, non-scientific

genres. Understanding how the distinctive features of science writing reflect the

activities and goals of science will help the writer become a more proficient writer

of scientific essay. All writers should be aware of their audiences, titles, headings,

Jargon. Scientific writing commonly relies on a further form of compression,

replacing frequently used terms consisting of more than one word. So that the

writer deeply hopes the more practice writing they do, the better writing they can

produce to get the best scientific essays. Do not be afraid of making scientific

writing, because the professional writers also started writing poorly at first.

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