42 1. It mirrors real-world writing situations where professionals often cooperate on
presentations, reports, and projects. 2. Group work provides instant feed back and a sense of audience- elements often
missing from the writing experience. 3. The reactions of peers help student writers understand they are writing for
community of readers, not merely for their instructor. http:www.swc.utexas.eduassignmentscollaboration.shtml
E. Collaborative or Not, Write
This is the characteristic of Indonesian people that they are better in speaking than in writing. This condition is different from the tradition of people from western
countries. For them the skills in speaking and writing are balance. I can not give a contra version to what is stated by Bacon; reading makes a full man, conference a
ready man, and writing is an exact man. Some one who is skilled in speaking is good. However it is better if he or she is also skilled in both speaking and writing.
Actually it is also my experience that speaking is easy than writing. Spontaneously through speaking we can express our ideas. I don’t know whether it
is caused by the failure of our education in the past. As a matter of fact, when I was a student at school my language teachers hardly taught me writing. I used to be
trained to speak rather than to write. I feel that expressing the ideas orally is easier than writing.
The stressing of this chapter is that the writers invite the reader in this case is the students and the intellectuals to try to write. They may try to write anything
collaboratively or not. Both of the techniques have the advantages. For the beginner writers it is better for them to write collaboratively since they can ask others to
check their writing. If we ask our colleagues to read our writing, we have opportunities our writing to be criticized. As a human being sometimes we are
careless in writing and it can be checked by others.
There are seven solutions give by the writers to make the students write: 1 stop teaching grammar, change with assignment to read fiction and writing report,
2 make the students feel confident to write, 3 give the example how to write, not theoretically, 4 teach the students to improve their faults, 5 involve the students in
the process of writing, 6 practice writing collaboratively, 7 give corrective feedback to the students writing.
F. It’s Started from ‘Iqra’
