The Nature of Writing
13 writing process. By practicing writing more, the students are trained to think
critically, to construct the correct English sentences, and to express the ideas. The third principle is making helpful and meaningful feedback. The
students need feedback for their writing clearly. This feedback can be written or oral. For the written feedback, it should be short and use understandable
vocabulary or symbol used or a simple message. By giving feedback or comments, the students can see their mistakes on their writing project. It will help
them to be more aware of their weaknesses. Since this study focuses on consultation, oral feedback becomes the focus
because the lecturer gives feedback or comments orally through the consultation. As stated by Akbarzadeh 2014 in a journal titled The effect of oral feedback on
the accuracy and complexity of EFL learners ’ writing performance, oral feedback
refers to interactive feedback, which has meaning as an interaction between the teacher and the students who have equal status to share their needs and make an
effort to understand each other. This direct interaction gives opportunities for the students to negotiate, to ask questions more, and to develop the students and the
teacher communication. Therefore, it will help the students to understand their writing problems and to learn from the mistakes.
The fourth is clarifying how the writing will be evaluated. The teacher needs to provide a clear evaluation for the
students’ essay. The students need to know what aspects which will be assessed in writing. The teacher needs to explain
the aspects of writing assessment during the learning process. By providing writing a scoring rubric the teacher helps the students to be more aware of the
14 writing requirements. The writing rubric should include the grammar,
organization, content or other features of writing that are important to be included and the scores in each aspect should be provided. For each aspect, the teacher
should provide requirements which should be achieved by the students.