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sentences around, deleting phrases or alternating repeated words with synonyms Campbell, 1998: 88.
In this research, it was found that when teacher gave comments on students’ compositions, students did some revisions on their compositions. Students mostly
revised their compositions when they got feedback on their content, clarity and organization of ideas. There were four strategies they used in revising their writing,
which were adding detailsexplanations, deleting wordsphrases, substituting wordsphrases and restructur ing sentences.
4.2.2.1 Adding detailsexplanations
One of the responses that the students did in revising was adding some details or explanations in their revision. Sometimes, in giving an explanation
students missed some important details. This could make the sentences unclear and it might lead to readers’ confusion. Therefore, when the teacher gave comments
asking for the meaning or clarity of students’ sentences, students responded giving additional details or explanations to make the sentences clear. Those details and
explanations were needed to give a better understanding for the readers. Example 1
was revised into
The Jakarta Post was also limited only on 14, 17, 20 and 23 September, 15, 18, 21 and 24 October and 15, 18, 21 and 24
November.
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Example 2
was revised into
Furthermore, the prefix can also make changes on the place of the stress in the stem.
4.2.2.2 Deleting WordsSentences
Another strategy that the students did was deleting words or sentences which were problematic or contained errors. In this study, it was found that when
teacher gave comments to problematic words or sentences and the students did not know how to revise it, they simply deleted those words. They avoided the issues
raised by feedback by deleting the problematic words or sentences. The students also deleted some unnecessary words which made their explanation not succinct.
The teacher crossed out those unnecessary words and the students would delete them in their revision.
Example 1
was revised into … The prefixes of time Artasari 2000 composed are also
English prefixes derived from Latin which is related to the research of English prefixes mega-,macro-, poly-, multi-
that prefixes coming fom Latin and Greek. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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Example 2
was revised into Compound noun are the most productive compounds.
4.2.2.3 Substituting WordsPhrases
The students also substitute some words which were problematic and change it into another word. The reason for substituting the problematic words
might be because the students did not know how to make improvement to the text. When students obtained feedback which asked them to explain more about
something they had written previously and they were lack of information to give further explanation, they preferred to substitute the words so that they did not need
to explain further about the problematic words. Example
was revised into Secondly, it means ‘anterior’ ‘forward’ as
in antechamber which means forward chamber, and ‘in
front of’ as in antechoir, which means in front choir.
4.2.2.4 Restructuring Sentences
