Internet For Students

In this unit, we students learn about Academic Writing which consist of four types:

-       First, comparison/ contrast, we learned to see and analyze the differences or similarities between two texts.

-       Second, research, we learned how to find the right and reliable resource and compose it into a good research paper.

-       Third, persuasive, we learned how to convince readers to believe or agree in what we said.

-       Fourth, reaction/ opinion, we learned how to share our thoughts, judgment and our point of view on a case or argument.

During the learning process of this unit, I found that research was the hardest one because you need to carefully cite the resource and also you need to determine whether the source can be trusted or not. The easiest one would probably be opinion/ reaction, because we only need to share what we think and find evidence to back it up.

At the end of learning this unit, we were asked to use all four types of academic writing to make essays and text of a topic given, Technological Issue. For example: comparison between Macintosh and Windows, research about Blackberry, persuade the readers that using Internet is good, to give opinions towards the increasing use of Facebook.

I choose about the “Impacts of Internet on Education”. From that, I learned about the disadvantages or benefits that the Internet had affect the Education these days. The benefits are that it’s easier to search for information, able to discuss problems through forums. While the disadvantages are hard to manage time, can cause addiction and others.

Overall, I think this unit about Academic Writing was quite fun because you get to experiment with different types of writing and also you get to learned about the technological issue from the assessment task.