Scientists Need to be Careful with The Big Sin A Big Nation is Who Writes

47 The condition above is not quite comfortable for a big country like Indonesia. As a student of pos graduate program I feel sad knowing this condition. However, I don’t think that there are professors can not write. The different between them may be in the productivity of writing. There are some professors more productive in writing and others are less productive. This conditions maybe caused by their involvements in the project of bureaucrat. In my opinion, there are some problems that cause the less productivity of professor to write. The first is that the low appreciation to the intellectuals in Indonesia. One of my professors says that the functional subsidy for the professionalism of a professor is not well appreciated. Hence many professors earn money outside the campus. Some of them become consultants in departments or factories and the others involve in many project of bureaucracy. The second, many professors have many position in bureaucracy which makes them busy and having very limited time to write. Furthermore, writing or publishing books is not only the responsibility of professors. All intellectuals have the responsibility to socialize and to document their knowledge. All of us are the same, having the strength and the weakness until we can give advantages to others. I O. Skripsi … A Piece of Cake Skripsi is the final form in accomplishing the scholarship. At least there are four reasons why the academicians have to write skripsi: 1 practicing to write a research, 2 reviewing the existing literature critically, 3 practicing to paraphrase through citation directlyindirectly 4 the confession of our scholarship. According to the writers writing skripsi is like making a peace of cake. A peace cake is easy to make if we know the ingredients or the receipt of making it. Although it is just a peace of cake, if we do not know the process how to make it, of course we will suppose that making a peace of cake is not easy. Just like making a peace a cake, in writing a skripsi we will find difficult if we do not know the process how to make it. And we will be very satisfied on the product of skripsi if we have done through the complexity of the process making it. In fact, for most students at university in Indonesia making skripsi is not an easy thing to do. Many students feel dither in facing the process of making a skripsi. It means that writing skripsi is difficult for them maybe because they do not know the process how to make it. The most valuable of skripsi is its writing process. In this chapter the writers provide the guidance how to make a research based writing like skripsi. We can also find the guidance to make a qualified writing, for examples, the accuracy, appropriateness, balance, clarity, completeness, consistency, control, impartially, interest, order, persuasiveness, relevance, simplicity, sincerity, unity etc. Finally there are some advices from famous writers how to be accustomed writing: 1 write as many as you can, 2 write as simple as possible, 3 don’t do a plagiarism, 4 work hard to sharpen your talent, and 5 be patient

P. Scientists Need to be Careful with The Big Sin

My understanding to what the writers mean by the big sin in this chapter is plagiarism. Plagiarism is the practice of claiming or implying original authorship of material which one has not actually created oneself, such as when a person 48 incorporates material from someone else’s work into his own work without attributing it. http:en.wikipedia.orgwikiPlagiarism. In the academic world, plagiarism is a serious academic offense which can result in punishment ranging from a failing grade on the particular assignment typically at the high school level, or the course in the college level, leading cumulatively to an academic suspension or expulsion. Within an organization in its own working document, standards are looser but not non-existent. If someone helps with a report, they expect to the credited. If a paragraph comes from the law report a citation is expected to be written down. In this chapter, the writers invite the readers especially the scientists or intellectuals to esteem someone’s original authorship. The writers also invite the readers to say no to the plagiarism and judge it as a big sin. A student has to learn how to write with his or her own style and language. The individual characteristic of writing has to be developed from earlier. Reading this chapter, it seems for me that this chapter has more than one idea. The title is talking about the big seen, however in the content we can just find a little about the plagiarism that is discussed by the writers. The rest of the chapter the writers discussed the anatomy in writing a research such as AIM READY SIR and then the writers explain how to appraise journal articles which has no correlation with a big sin.

Q. A Big Nation is Who Writes

A big nation is who writes. Its time to realize that writing plays an important role to develop the quality of society in a nation. The activities of writing can be the indicator of educated society. It means that the tradition of educated people is to communicate and to interact by using the media of writing. The activity of reading and writing becomes a culture in their life. The civilians promote their life style through the quantity and quality of reading and writing. The fact shows that when someone is writing means he has read first. Actually, I agree to what the writers infer that in Indonesia the ability writing are not developed well. As a matter of fact, the writing activities at school are not fully appreciated. The students or even the teachers are reluctant to write. For most of people in Indonesia, writing is not an easy thing to do. When it is compared with the culture of western countries, the quantity and the quality of Indonesian in writing is still left behind. What to do with writing, Alwasilah 2006 proposed one thing that is reorient of writing subject at school. He proposed some strategies or approaches to enhance the quality of writing at school: 1. The curricular approach, “forcing” the learners to Indonesia or English. 2. The extra-curricular approach, writing promotes out of school. 3. The cultural approach, promoting writing as a means of appreciating culture and civilization. 4. The efficiency approach, demanding the relevancy and advantages of pragmatic text “is matched” to the students’ level of knowledge. Based on what proposed by Alwasilah above, the solution is the policy makers, the department of National Education, have to consider revising the curriculum. In this case, the curriculums have to be redesigned in order to support the students to be able to write. 49

R. Conclusion