o Renewability: Once created, materials can be updated easily and often.
o Adaptability: Web-based activities can easily be modified to support students at different proficiency levels or with special
needs Morrison, 2002. Create a website is not an easy work, yet it is not an impossible thing.
After understanding the advantages of an own website, create a website is worthy. To make a well made website, there are some steps which can be
employed. Roblyer and Doering 2010 proposed eight steps to make a good website i.e.:
a Planning and making story-board b Developing pages with texts
c Inserting images and frames d Inserting links and frames
e Inserting interactive elements f Test in a browser
g Publishing the site h Gathering evaluation and comments
e. Web-based Writing Learning Materials
After understanding web-based instruction and its connections in the preceding part, web-based writing learning materials will be examined. The
first thing that must be understood is what materials are in this context. Materials are anything which is used by teachers by learners in order to help
their language teaching or learning to increase the learners’ knowledge andor
experience of the language Tomlinsosn, 1998. From the definition before, it can be concluded then, that web-based writing learning materials are anything
that is used to increase th e learners’ knowledge in writing in through a
websiteonline environment. The materials that will be used in the website are similar to materials
which are used in the class environment. The main difference of the materials in online and class environment is about the presentation because in the
online environment, there will be no teacher in the physical form. For that reason, the criteria of effective web-based materials in general are similar to
materials which are used in class environment. Tomlinson 1998 proposes some criteria for effective materials adapted from some basic principles in
second language acquisition; materials should: a achieve purposes,
b help learners to feel at ease, c help learners to develop confidence,
d expose language in authentic form, e provide learners opportunities to use the language, and
f provide opportunities for outcome feedback.
Following to web-based instruction and its connections, the writing activities for developed websites will be discussed. The writing activities here
are adapted from writing activities in general.
4. Writing Activities
Activities or tasks which are used in a web-based instruction can be adapted from Brown’s 2004 writing activities. Brown explains that there are
four categories of writing performances or activities i.e.:
a. Imitative or writing down
Students simply write down English letters, words, and possibly sentences in order to master the mechanics of writing. The activities could be;
