My Experience and My Progress in Writing Essay

“There is no result without process and there is no progress without some efforts”. This statement already works for me and I believe all of people agree with it. I have experience that proves this statement. It happened when I took writing 2 in this short semester.

At the first time when my friend told that Miss Lina will teach in writing 2 in this short semester, I felt like back to the past. It was about 3 years ago when my friend and I took writing 1 in the second semester (2011). At that time Miss Lina gave me and all of my friend of NK2 so many exercise about writing. I should write essays with different types. After wrote, I should ask friends to check what essay that wrote by me. For final examination my friend and I must collect the entire essays that we wrote in that semester and save it in one file. I still remember how difficult I and my friend run to the copy center to print out my essay and then must run back to the campus for collecting the essay in one file. Now, when I took writing 2, I felt like people on fire because I know in this short semester will be so many exercises that I should wrote but I believe I can handle it.

Now in writing 2 it is not different method with writing 1 activity. In this short semester I have so many exercises that must I write every day. Each day I have the other exercise and sometimes I should check and check my essays again before going to other essays to make sure they are better than before, and to make a few of error. Until now I have had wrote 3 essays, there are general essay, discussion essay, and narrative essay. For general essay as the first essay that my lecturer gave, told about weakness and strengthens in writing and told about the strategies that should I do to achieve score A in writing 2.  For discussion essay, I can choose title that will I write by myself and I write about minor children phenomena. The last one is about narrative. It is consist of two parts; the first is about narrative text about fiction story of “Rp.3000 change people perception”, then about narrative essay with title of Listen to your parents. In this essay I wrote about my experience and process during write all of the essays that given by my lecturer.

The first essay that I wrote is about my weakness and straightens in writing. The processes that I follow is making brainstorming, it needed to help me to easy explain the point of my idea that will I write. After I brainstormed I tried for making outline of my essay. It consisted of introduction, body paragraphs and conclusion. In outline I wrote in general view that will check before continue to draft 1. For checking my outline, I copied it and asked friends to help for reviewing and correcting the essays. It is finish? Not yet because after my essays was checked by my friend and myself too, I must write the new one with few of error. During this processes, I felt enjoy because this essays tell about my own experience and my own weakness that really I know. Easily, I can give more imagination and explanation to this general essay and after wrote this essay I understand what were my weakness and strengthens, what were the strategies that can I did in while I am writing. So that I know what should I do and what process that must be followed if I want to be a good writer and achieve A in this short semester especially in writing 2.

For the next essay I tried to make a good one with a good process. It is about discussion text that purpose to give information which consists of responses, view, or argument in responding to social phenomena or social issue. And I told about minor children phenomena of working. I choose this title and this idea because nowadays I see there are children who must earn money in minor age. It is so controversy phenomena while it has advantages, in contrast gives disadvantages to children. During I wrote this essay, I got some problem to collect the data and sometime when I found the data, I forget to put it on my essay. In writing about discussion essay, I started feel bored of all of this process because day by days the exercises that should I did more than before and also must continue my first essay about weaknesses and straightens that was revised by my friend.

Even though I want to have free time to enjoy this fasting day and sometime I should go home late to finish and collect this essay, I never stop to write an essay without care about my health. I force my body to finish the entire task on time; it forces me to sleep late at night and must wake up early to sahur. It was so tired day in process of writing and it made me got flue and fever because of this busy activity.

It was not the end. I don’t want to lose my time to complete my writing because I got flue. I decided must handle the problem that I got in processes of writing; I tried to make a schedule of my activity. I set the specific time for study, work, and have fun with friend, and its work. So I can write a good essay and have more time to enjoy the day.

In conclusion, eventhough writing 2 is so busy and boring activity with so many processes and exercises that should I write everyday, the activity that make my time became shorter to enjoy the day and have fun with friend. It was hard semester I though because I had lost my time for having fun with friend but “there is no result without process” On the other hand writing 2 is the activity that makes me able to produce a work that can be enjoyed by many people and I should understand that “work hard for good results”. I realized that in writing 2, I learn how to be a discipline people, how to handle the time and how to write an essay. However, I realized this problem occur cause I cannot manage the time and all of this process need to the future. So if I focus in this process I will get a good result for the next, I hope I can get A.