Argumentative
Essay Writing: A Process Approach to Writing Instruction at LBPP-LIA
Ferry
Antoni
Muhammad
Handi Gunawan
There were times when writing instruction was aimed at
students’ being able to produce writings to meet the criteria set by the
teacher without the students’ being given enough time to revise their work.
What mattered was the writing product. Such instruction undoubtedly deprives
student of various rights: their interest in topics to write on, adequate time
to do their writing to achieve the expected result, motivation to write,
development of critical thinking skills, etc. Times are now changing. There
have been suggestions as to how the teacher can best teach writing employing
what is known as the process-oriented approach, by which students are empowered
to revise their writing through multiple drafts with the guidance of their
teacher before they eventually produce their final product. This paper,
therefore, attempts to reveal this process-oriented approach to writing
instruction exemplifying argumentative essay writing, which we adopt at
LBPP-LIA Bandung. It will reveal why we choose
argumentative essay writing, what argumentative writing really is, how students
go about it, what advantages it offers, what problem it poses, and what
solution can be proposed to solve the problems.
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Antoni, F., & Gunawan, M. H. (2004, April). Argumentative essay writing: A process
approach to writing instruction at LBPP-LIA
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