On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, we had a
workshop. Everybody had a chance to review each partner’s work. At that time, I
reviewed Saiful Aris’ work. His paragraph told about big population in Jakarta.
Actually at the first time (that) I read it, I felt confused and didn’t
understand it because there were many new difficult words that I hadn’t known
the meaning.
Last Wednesday, October 10,
2012, we had discussion class. There were 3 presenters at that
time. They were Tryas, Lilis, and Zaky. The first presenter was Tryas. She
presented about persuasion paragraph but the others didn’t agree with her
declaration. She convinced us that the paragraph was persuasive because the
source that we got from Miss Vita explained it. Actually she misunderstood. She
thought that the last paragraph was sentence that persuaded the readers to take
an action after reading the paragraph, such as “Believe it and act!” (in the
source, “seven types of paragraph development”), in her paragraph was like
“Student, do your home work to make better grades and...(blablabla)!”, I have
forgotten the sentence. This context was as same as the example of persuasive
paragraph in the source. But the purpose of Tryas paragraph was not like in the
source. There was
no suggestion and instruction in the paragraph. The whole paragraph explained
about the importance of homework. So, her paragraph was exposition because it
explained the importance of homework.
The second presenter was Lilis. She
presented 2 paragraphs. The first paragraph was classification. Actually the
paragraph was not in the form of paragraph, but she modified it by herself with
adding some words without changing the meaning till it formed a paragraph.
There was no any problem in the first paragraph. She continued the second paragraph.
It was process analysis. She explained the topic and topic sentence. The topic
sentence was not in the beginning sentence of paragraph. But it was in the
middle paragraph. When I read the first sentence, I claimed that the paragraph
was definition because it defined “scanning”. Then I read the next sentence. It
explained about the steps of scanning with the time order (e.g.: first, second,
then, next, etc.). So that, it had been clear that the paragraph was process
analysis. But, when Lilis stated the topic,”scanning”, one of our friends
didn’t agree. She said that the meaning of “scanning” was not only for reading
context, but also in machine. So that, she wanted the specific topic to avoid
misunderstanding. Then we agreed that the topic was “scanning in reading”. The
last presenter was Zaky. She presented about classification. There was no
problem. So she just showed her paragraph, gave us know the type of the
paragraph she presented— we agreed, then she closed the presentation.
The
last meeting on last week, Friday, October 12, 2012, we had a workshop again.
We reviewed classification paragraph. When that time, I reviewed Nisa’s work.
Her paragraph told about the types of friend she had. Once we reviewed our
partner’s work, we ate snacks that was given by Octa. Waaaaahhh….if I always
have a class with snacks every meetings, I will be fat. Hehe.
