Conclusion CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

54 Furthermore, literature provides a balance of the goals teachers should be aware of. Teachers must not only help to develop individuals’ personal and intellectual potentials, but also their capacity to be more responsible for their own development. Therefore, the writer suggests using this novel in the teaching of writing, especially writing I for the first semester students of Sanata Dharma University. Writing is the way of people to express their opinions, feelings, and points of view. Writing needs more effort to produce meaning than to identify meaning through listening or reading, because what can be told cannot be expressed easily and quickly in writing. The students have to follow the conventions of the spelling and punctuation that will make their compositions understandable for others. In writing activity, the students are also exploring, observing, imagining, and listing their experiences and knowledge. Then, they categorize, compare, analyze, and compose their opinions and ideas into written form. Thus, it is a must for the students to apply their imagination and literary abilities in interpreting the novel and pouring them out on the paper. Some students find that writing task is a difficult and boring activity. So, the purpose of this writing activity is to stimulate the students’ creativities in giving opinions, in making suggestions, and in exploring ideas. There are many ways to teach writing using this novel. Descriptive writing is a way in which the students are to describe: a thing, a person, a place, an event, and a concept, while in narrative writing the students are asked to write about series of events according to the novel. Another way is argumentative writing in which the students are to state their opinion or explanation about certain aspects in the novel. 55 Finally, in free writing the students can use their imagination to write about the continuity of the stories in the novel. Those types of writing can be assigned to university students in their writing class, especially for the students who are in the English Department. Below are the procedures of teaching learning writing: 1. The teacher chooses the model of paragraphs from the novel. 2. The teacher explains in brief about the model of paragraph. 3. The teacher gives a brief explanation about the types of writing to the students. 4. The teacher asks the students to write a free writing about other versions of the continuity of the trial, based on their creativities and imagination, in groups.