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Using Observation Method in Generating Senior

High School Student Ideas in Writing a Descriptive Text

Name               : Fotji Fazerah Shatilla

Reg. Number   :15744

Class               : K4/2010

            What will happen if people cannot write? Absolutely, this case makes the way of people thinking is not be able to develop it objectively and efficiently. Moreover, they will illiterate and cannot reading. Those reasons are standing for people who could not reach the education. English as an international language in the world has language skill that substances of listening, reading, speaking, writing. That is why writing is one of the important language skills. According to Brown (1994:328) a production method for learning, reinforcing, or testing grammatical concepts is sometime used in writing. It means that all of thought, feeling, idea, and opinion are combining into one form which is expressed by a writer to make a great writing.

The ability to write effectively in English is more important in the global community because it is used in technology, especially social link. It is connecting people from different countries to keep interaction each other eventhought they bad in speaking English. Therefore, the ability to write in English language is really helpful and becoming widely recognized as an important skill for education, business, and personal activity. As a result, most of the teachers teach writing as an interesting subject in order to motivate students to be a good writer.

            The students who love writing is exactly love reading, the students who love reading is probably does not love writing yet, and  the students who does not love reading usually cannot writing well. Graham (2007:3) defines that teenager who does not gain knowledge of to write well face many problems. This case always happens in each school in the world. Many problems found in student’s writing. When a teacher asks her students to write, they usually try to find the excuses that make them can go out from their class. Additionally, these students sometime wasting much time of writing, especially when they starting to write. Based on that case, writing seems like a subject which should be avoided for them. Somehow, the students can finish their writing but, it is generally monotonous and uninteresting. Most of teachers already use many ways to make their students to do not hate writing and make it turn into the attractive subject. Unfortunately, these ways still does not working well.

            The aim of writing is to communicate a massage. Therefore, the students make a good paragraph, essay, or text which is instead of message as clear as possible to the reader. Descriptive text is one genre from kinds of text. The students cannot be able to generate their ideas in writing, especially for writing descriptive text. The senior high school student’s writing ability is entirely different with its school below it. These students can writing more well because they have many experiences. In contrast, they have many experiences but they are not interested and motivated in writing. One way that can solve those problems is by using natural approach method. So, using natural approach method has some good advantages in generating senior high school students’ ideas in writing a descriptive text.

Teaching English is not easy. The teachers have to teach four English language skills which are included of Speaking, Listening, Reading, and Writing. In writing, most of students usually do not like it for the reason that they think that it is hard and frustrating. This is one of teaching writing problems that faced intended for teachers. To find out the resolution, they have to implementation many kinds of methods. Disappointingly, it did not cure and motivated the students within writing. Due to that observation method is appropriate in generating senior high school student ideas mainly writing a descriptive text.

            Tarmudi (2012) mentions, observation come from Latin which means “see” and “concern”. Observation is using in an activity which concerns it accurately, the phenomena that appears is written, and that a phenomenon is connected with both of aspect within it. Other author Page (2010) defines that Observation is a realistic research tool which provides precious sources of information in conditions of others people's improvement, communications and behaviors. So, when a teacher asking her students to write a descriptive text, this method will help them easier to write. It has a reason that they get more concentrate and inspiration because of the object is real and can catch some of their senses; seeing, hearing, and smelling.

If the students do writing in outdoor of class, they will feel fresh and free to write a descriptive text. These students are not in imagination world anymore, but they are in the real world. This means they can feel what they see straightforwardly and faithfulness. Thus, using observation method can enrich and generate student’s idea, make the students do writing easily, and make them more fun in writing.

            The first advantage of using observation method is that can help senior high school students’ problem to enriching and generating their idea. Primarily, these students have ability in writing well; however, they lack of expressed the ideas, spelling, correct grammar, and diction to arrange then write them down to a paper clearly. Without came up the ideas they will take a long time and even waste their time to think. In many cases, the students written are less quality. By using observation method, a student’s mind is capable toward open widely.

            Inspiration does not always come easily. Students need more concentration while they do writing. The overcrowded class is not effective for to do writing. Observation method becomes visible to generate their idea. Classroom atmosphere gives the students inflexibility to enrich their idea. They feel bored stressed out by time to time when start to writing. So, when the students go to go out from their class, they will feel different by different impression. As a result, they get more inspiration by visiting wonderful place to write a descriptive text.

            To come up more idea, the students need more concentration. That is a reason why most of the students hate writing. They cannot think effectively because they cannot concentration properly. Thus, the way to make them concentration in writing is by doing activity that they like a lot. Observation method will create these students more enjoyable to do writing. This method is approach the object directly and then they will start to write based on what they see. In fact, at what time they see the object directly, certainly many of ideas will came up from their mind. As a result, these students can make a good descriptive text by those great ideas.

            When the students get a task about writing usually they think that it is really hard to do it. Then, they would not start to do that task before the dead line came nearly. After that, they worry about it because they have limited time to do and finish it as soon as possible. This case is not only occurring to senior high school student, but also to all levels of schools’ student. Brown (1994:325) states that the good information is that, given suitable stretches of time and developing well-organized process for achieving the last product can indeed by became a “good” writer. This means that the students as a writer should use their quality time to produce a writing. Lack of ideas always became a reason of it. This is a simple problem, although they think that it is a big problem. It caused of when a student in fidgety thought he cannot concentration to do his assignments. He needs something to refresh his mind and make him relax. Some of methods which his teacher has practical did not solve it. As a result, observation method preserves to answer that case because the nature place will reduce the students’ stress and give them some relax. Trough this method can return their concentration and finish their writing.

            Observation method also can make the students do writing easily. If they lack of idea, absolutely they feel that writing is difficult. Writing a descriptive text is not really difficult. However, if these students cannot generate their ideas it can be. In writing a descriptive text technical, it provides readers with precise details about the physical, composition, appearance, or features of a subject. Accordingly, when the observation method is applied, student can write a text without difficulty. For example, a teacher asks her students to write a descriptive text about water boom in Padang Panjang. What can the students do if there are some of students in that class never visit it. Enormously, they do not know what things that should they write. Then, they will anxiety and worry to write. As a fact, there are only few students who know how to finish the task that their teacher gave before.

            Based on that case, if that teacher can bring her students to visit the object and asks them to write directly, the students who never visit it will be able to write that text as well as possible. Also, these students can write the descriptive text about water boom Padang Panjang more detail and accurately. The readers can more understand, enrich the knowledge, and feel as if in that place which the students told in their text. Scholes, Comley, and Peritz (2001:122) define that the twin problems (choice and combination) of descriptive writing can be solved in the same mode. A point of view about the object being described is must be had by a writer. For that reason, using observation method is really helpful to solve the problem if the students faced difficulty in writing.

            The students like to do the activity that their crazy about it. Thus, observation method makes them feel happy and did not worry about writing. A teacher should feel what her students feeling. She has to know what her students like, what activity that make them crazy about, and keep their student in a happy mood. So, when the students study writing, they will feel cheerful and glad with a teacher who knows what they feel. Moreover, if a teacher asks her students to write a descriptive text by using observation method, they can make it easily. It has a reason that to describe an object which they have to write is already in of their eyes.

            The last advantage of using observation method makes the students more fun in writing. Generally, the students usually bored with the same routine activities and same place where they study for each semester they follow. Many fall into this pattern because constantly irregular attention and multitasking ease the pain of doing something they hate in the first place. To reduce this feeling, the observation method can bring them out to see the sightseeing place. It feels like this method throws some joys into the students’ tears. They will be capable of taste a little bit fun from their stress in writing.

Most of people state that writing such as a boring routine. In addition, some students are not patient enough for enjoy the learning English process. Principally, learning English cannot be instant, but it is need a long process. As a good teacher, this teacher of course will feel worry about their students who would want to write. For that reason, most of teachers will find out the method which is suitable to arrange their students want to write. The boring situation makes them get stress of study and lazy to write easily. Writing needs an energy and brain to think. If these students do not breakfast before go to school, utterly they cannot do their activities that need energy and though. It caused of writing need a hand, and hand will need energy instead of the body. So the energy needs a power which gets it from doing a breakfast.

Somehow, the method which has applied by a teacher is does not work well. The students usually like the method that consist of games, stories, and study outdoor. So, a teacher has to focus on that method. One of many methods can get solution from that problem is observation method. This method is almost same with study outdoor. In fact, the students love to study in new place where different with their class. It makes them enjoyable by visiting that place. Certainly, if these students are in good mood, of course they feel that writing is fun.

In order to make more understandable about using observation method, these are two examples of descriptive texts in the different topic. These topics of descriptive text are truly different. One of the texts tells about Jatim Park, and the other one is about the amazing Taj Mahal in India.

 Jatim Park

For people in East Java, Jatim Park may have been heard many times as it is one of the famous tourism object in East Java province. Jatim Park offers a recreation place as well as a study center. Jatim Park is located at Jl. Kartika 2 Batu, East Java. To reach the location is not too difficult because the object is only 2, 5 kilos meters from Batu city. This Jatim Park tourism object is about 22 hectares width.

Visitor can enjoy at least 36 kinds of facilities which can attract them as well as give new knowledge. Just after the pass gate, the visitors will find an interesting view of ‘Galeri Nusantara’ area. This study offering continues to step on ‘Taman Sejarah’ area, which contains of miniature temple in East Java like Sumberawan temple, customhouse of Kiai Hasan Besari Ponorogo and Sumberawan Statue.

The other facility which is able to be enjoyed is ‘Agro Park’ area. It presents crop and rareness fruits, animal diorama which consists of unique animals that have been conserved, and supporting games like bowling, throw ball, scooter disco, etc

Jatim Park is suitable for family and school recreation. The recreation area sites offer precious tour and can used as alternative media of study.

The Amazing Taj Mahal in India

Taj Mahal is regarded as one of the eight wonders of the world. It was built by a Muslim Emperor Shah Jahan in the memory of his dear wife at Agra.
Taj Mahal is a Mausoleum that houses the grave of queen Mumtaz Mahal. The mausoleum is a part of a vast complex comprising of a main gateway, an elaborate garden, a mosque (to the left), a guest house (to the right), and several other palatial buildings. The Taj is at the farthest end of this complex, with the river Jamuna behind it.
The Taj stands on a raised, square platform (186 x 186 feet) with its four corners truncated, forming an unequal octagon. The architectural design uses the interlocking arabesque concept, in which each element stands on its own and perfectly integrates with the main structure. It uses the principles of self-replicating geometry and a symmetry of architectural elements.
Its central dome is fifty-eight feet in diameter and rises to a height of 213 feet. It is flanked by four subsidiary domed chambers. The four graceful, slender minarets are 162.5 feet each. The central domed chamber and four adjoining chambers include many walls and panels of Islamic decoration.
Taj Mahal is built entirely of white marble. Its stunning architectural beauty is beyond adequate description, particularly at dawn and sunset. The Taj seems to glow in the light of the full moon. On a foggy morning, the visitors experience the Taj as if suspended when viewed from across the Jamuna river.

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In conclusion, this paper has discussed the using of observation method in generating senior high school student’s ideas in writing a descriptive text. Some related theories have been presented in some different parts. That is deal with how the using of observation method can improve the motivation of students to write, and the other is how is how the using of observation method the can improve student’s ability in writing a descriptive text. In order to show the relationship between writing a descriptive text by using observation method, it has been discussed through examples that also have been provided. Thus, observation method is really functional in order to generate and enrich the senior high school student ideas, can make student’s easier to do writing, and make them more fun in making a descriptive text.

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