TEACHING THROUGH EXAMPLES:A MEANINGFUL WAY TO TEACH ACADEMIC WRITING

Students of undergraduate program have an obligation of writing a paper as the prerequisite of their graduation. Unfortunately, many of them were still puzzled to write the paper. Not only were they confused with the idea to be conveyed, but also with the methodology and the approach of the research. Many of them did not have any idea of why they chose qualitative approach instead of quantitative one. Explaining the theory was proven to be ineffective since most of the students still made mistakes when they started writing. Therefore providing examples of various research papers was believed to be helpful and meaningful for the students. The research papers selected as examples were various so that the students could see the reason why a particular title had to employ a particular approach and method of research. This paper presentation will focus on the use of examples i.e. research papers as the media to teach academic writing which is considered difficult but important since the subject aims at guiding the students to write their final paper. To investigate this issue, document analysis, in-depth interviewing and participant classroom observation were deployed as data collection methods. The advantage of this paper presentation is to help the teacher teaches difficult subject meaningfully and to enhance students’ understanding in writing their academic or final paper. Keywords: research paper, academic writing, quantitative, qualitative, research method