Analysis of the Third Activity

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4.2.3.1 Analysis of the Third Activity

The third activity was conducted on Tuesday, November 16 th 2010. The writer prepared some materials to be discussed and returned back the Peer Editing Worksheet to the students. Remember when the second activity was conducted, the students were required to read their partner’s descriptive text that had been sent to their email. After that, they had to analyze their partner’s work through answering 7 items in “Peer Editing Worksheet”. They are: 1 Is there any identification paragraph? 2 What information does your friend need to add in hisher identification? 3 Is there any description paragraph? 4 What information does your friend need to add in hisher description letter? 5 Pay attention to the vocabulary. Does the vocabulary vary enough? 6 Give some suggestions to make it better. 7 Is there any sentence that confuses you? 8 Write down the confusing sentence. 9 Is the content clear enough for you? Any suggestions? 10 Is there any grammatical error? Mention 11 What is your general impression of hisher descriptive letter? a. Strength what do you like most about the lesson? b. Weaknesses Give some suggestion for your friend’s improvement The students had to submit their peer editing worksheet on the third meeting, and unfortunately, not all of the students did it well. Despairingly, some of students had to revise and rewrite their descriptive letter based on the writer’s 80 advice only in order to save time, without considering their partner’s advice through the peer editing worksheet as one source to in revising students’ descriptive text. Following the peer editing worksheet, the writer graded the students’ descriptive text and analyzed their errors. Also, the writer had made comments on every student’s paper. Afterwards, the writer cumulated the students’ errors and analyzes their errors. Moreover, the writer created materials related to the students’ common mistakes in order to minimalist their mistakes. The material was created in the form of power point presentation, which the writer posted on the WebQuest page. The writer handed back the student’s composition with some comments inside. The students read the comments and analyzed their mistakes. An activity followed in the form of power point presentation. In that presentation, the writer gave explanations from power point slides which addressed some common mistakes taken form students’ papers. During the power point presentation, the writer explained the students’ common mistakes and gave some advice in order to make their work better. The students were then given a chance to ask questions. After the question-answer session was finished, the writer asked the students to repair their descriptive essay based on that day’s explanation and the comments stated in their paper. For those who had gotten the Peer Editing Worksheet from their partner, they also had to consider their partner’s comments to be included on their new descriptive text. Unfortunately, some of the students had not done the peer editing 81 worksheet yet. Some of them said that their partner had not sent them the descriptive text email so they could not do the Peer Editing Worksheet. The writer told the students to finish their second descriptive text today and submit it to the writer’s email address. She also asked the students who have not done the Peer Editing Worksheet to work on it this week and send their Peer Editing to the writer’s email address and to their partner’s email address.

4.2.3.2 Analysis of the Fourth Activity Post-test