16 discussion and in responding the feedback in order to improve their writing
proficiency through the consultation.
2. Essay Writing
Since this study finds out the influences of consultation in Academic Essay Writing course, the researcher defines the nature of the academic essay and
the types of essay.
a. The Nature of Essay
Essay is a short literary prose composition, presenting writer ’s thought that
is usually analytic, speculative or interpretative Tiedt, 1989. In addition, the other explanation about essay comes from Indrisano and Squire 2000 who state
that an essay creates the opportunity for the students to develop the reasoned explanations as they discover, analyse, and synthesize the ideas through the
process of writing. Therefore, in the essay writing process, the student needs to analyze or to interpret the data or the information and to express or to respond the
ideas in the written form.
b. Types of Essay
In order to clarify the nature of the essay, this part reviews the types of the essay. There are two types of essay: academic and non-academic.
1 Academic
As stated by Muhyidin 1988, an academic essay is a formal composition which consists of the introductory, the body, and the concluding paragraphs which
develop one central idea. In this study the kinds of academic writing which are
17 found in AEW are language teaching, literature, and linguistics. The academic
essay shows an analytical review of particular topic.
2 Non-academic
As stated by Crème and Lea as cited in Dickinson 2004, a non-academic essay is more personal. The information comes from the
writer’s personal feeling and opinion rather than the fact. It is usually based on the personal experience or
interpretation. The theme is also about the life experience or activities in the daily life.
c. Academic Essay Writing
As stated by Muhyidin 1988, an academic essay is a formal composition. The researcher provides the purposes of the academic essay in order to give
additional explanation of academic essay. There are four purposes of the academic essay writing. Those purposes are stated by Bailey 2011 namely to report on a
piece of research, to answer the research questions, to discuss a subject of common interest and to synthesize the research.
In an AEW course, the students focus on three main topics that should be written by the students in one semester. They are education, literature, and
linguistics. The students should make an essay that is related to those topics and then discuss it academically. It means that they should write an essay by using
formal language and providing some references to support their statements. Therefore, in an academic essay the students are expected to express their opinion
based on the theories that they find.
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