Arisya Putri

Handwriting, writing with the hand as distinguished from print. The term handwriting has come to be more or less restricted to mean the form of writing peculiar to each person. Handwriting has a low status and profile in literacy education and in recent years has attracted little attention from teachers, policy makers or researchers into mainstream educational processes. Explorations of the way handwriting affects composing have opened up new avenues for research, screening and intervention, which have the potential to make a significant contribution to children's progress in learning to write. In particular, the role of orthographic motor integration and automaticity in handwriting is now seen as of key importance in composing. Evidence from existing studies suggests that handwriting intervention programmes may have a real impact on the composing skills of young writers. In particular, they could positively affect the progress of the many boys who struggle with writing throughout ...

Last week was the first meeting in the academic writing course. This course is taught by the lecturer, Udi Samanhudi Ph.D. Last week, he explained some material about academic writing and also the initial introduction to lectures. There are 4 questions given regarding academic writing. First of all, I want to explain what is writing. What is writing? Nunan in Yuniati (2015) believes that writing is the act of creating ideas, thinking the way to express thoughts, and managing the concept into sentences or paragraphs to make them clear to a reader. Gaith, also in Yuniati (2015), said that writing is the process that passed by a writer to scour his ideas and thought and make their ideas are concrete. Barli Bram defines writing as producing or reproducing a written message. It is an active process to organize and formulate the ideas on the paper. Therefore, before we write we need to determine what to write should have something meaningful to convey.  Writing is a process of organi...