I am satisfied with my writing

38 Table 4.2 shows that the students seldom use the Internet in doing the Writing VI exercises 52.3 or access www.writing6.wordpress.com. The researcher determined “often” here as three times a week. The students browsed the Internet less than three times a week. Although most of the students seldom browse the Internet, at least they have enriched experiences in using the Internet in order to do the Writing VI exercises. The perceiver’s experience, needs, and emotions can affect his or her perceptions of a target. Experience becomes the most important characteristics of the perceiver that influences his or her impression of a target. As Altman et.al. 1985: 85 and Warga 1983:207 remark, “past experience makes someone familiar with something. This affects someone in perceiving things and in dealing with those things”. Therefore, the students’ experiences in using Internet make them familiar with the Internet and affect their perceptions of the use of Internet. Internet is such an interesting, modern technology media. The students can get everything they want related to their task easily through the Internet. The sense of ‘modern technology’ impresses the students much. The total mean scores showed the students’ positive perceptions on the use of Internet. The students consider that using the Internet in doing the Writing VI exercises is helpful and beneficial for them. By using the Internet, the students can get the data or references needed easily, in doing Writing VI exercises. They can also find the examples of research papers as the Writing VI material. The data showed that the respondents enjoy learning writing by using the Internet. They are also comfortable and more interested in learning writing, because the Internet provides examples of research papers, the data needed, and references in order to do the Writing VI exercises. 39 The students believed that the Internet is beneficial for them, therefore, they have high motivation in learning writing. It was shown by the data that 87.7 of the respondents agreed with the statement of the students are more motivated in learning because of the use of Internet. They are also satisfied with their writing, because their writing products are better than before. Forty two respondents 62.6 agree and thirteen respondents 20 strongly agree with the statement. This study also wants to know how the students perceive the Internet contributions toward their writing proficiency. Moreover, from the results of the questionnaire, the students believed that their writing abilities improved. There are 84.6 of the respondents who agreed that through Internet their ability to express the idea in the form of text has improved. The respondents believed that they are able to express their ideas into written form clearly so that there will not be misinterpretation between them and the readers. Some of the total respondents 87.7 also agreed that their grammar abilities have improved. It is probably because of the fact that by having several good examples of papers from the Internet, the respondents can construct grammatical sentences better. The respondents’ vocabulary increased as well. They got several new vocabulary from the Internet. The vocabulary mastery is very necessary in making a good writing. Because there are examples of research papers in the Internet, the students’ abilities in organizing the paragraph and making a good paragraph also improved. They can express their ideas with a well-structured format i.e. introduction, body, and conclusion. The respondents can also make good paragraphs which contain main ideas and supporting sentences.