Teaching Writing News item Text through Facebook

Teaching Writing News item Text through Facebook
Lecture: Cunong Suraja
By:
Khaerunnisa
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ENGLISH EDUCATION PROGRAM
FACULTY OF TEACHING AND ADUCATION
IBN KHALDUN UNIVERSITY BOGOR
2010
CHAPTER I
INRODUCTION
Writing is very important for studying English, because with writing we can share our problem or anything. For example, writing in dairy, describe the people or place and so on, one of them is writing news item text through facebook. News item is a text which informs readers about events of the day. The events are considered newsworthy or important.
In the globalization era, facebook is the most important thing in teaching learning process. facebook has new ways of learning, numerous educational tools and applications have appeared and e-learning has come into being. facebook used by all people in this word, not only for adult but also for many children. With the facebook we can improve our knowledge; we can know anything else that never we know. It can make easily for us to communicate especially in learning process.
Facebook is a social networking website; it is the famous one of technology in this era. Users can add people as friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves.
The reason why I choose this title because I think this title is very interesting to know all people, and there are so many people doesn’t know about news item text, and how to use facebook for writing or send a message. It makes easily and enjoy for students when they study writing, and improving their writing skill, creativity and their ability.
CHAPTER II
TEORYTICAL FOUNDATION
A. Definition of Writing
Writing is all that gives rise to an inscription in general. In Western Culture writing is often only considered as the representation of language in a textual medium through the use of a set of signs or symbols (known as a writing system). It is distinguished from illustration, such as cave drawing and painting, and non-symbolic preservation of language via non-textual media, such as audio. Writing may use abstract characters that represent phonetic elements of speech, as in Indo-European languages, or it may use simplified representations of objects or concepts, as in east-Asian and ancient Egyptian pictographic writing forms. However, it is distinguished from illustration, such as cave drawing and painting, and non-symbolic preservation of language via non-textual media, such as magnetic tape audio.
. Writing most likely began as a consequence of political expansion in ancient cultures, which needed reliable means for transmitting information, maintaining financial accounts, keeping historical records, and similar activities. Around the 4th millennium BC, the complexity of trade and administration outgrew the power of memory, and writing became a more dependable method of recording and presenting transactions in a permanent form. In both Mesoamerica and Ancient Egypt writing may have evolved through calendrics and a political necessity for recording historical and environmental events.
B. Definition of News item text.
What is a news item text? A news item text is a text which is grouped into the text genre of narration. The main function of narration is telling stories or informing about events in chronological order. The order in the narration can be based of time, place and the events them selves. Referring to the high school graduate standard, news item text should be completely studied in the first class
with narrative and recount text. These three text types explore the way on how a story or event is retold to others.
News item text is written for public information of what is the newsworthy of the day. Basically, a news item text tries to answer the 5Ws and 1H questions; what, who, when, where, why, and how relating to the newsworthy.
C. Types of News item Text
News item is a text which informs readers about events of the day. The events are considered newsworthy or important. The purpose of news item is to inform readers about events of the day which are considered newsworthy or important. Based on generic structure and language feature dominantly used, texts are divided into several types. They are narrative, recount, descriptive, report, explanation, analytical exposition, hortatory exposition, procedure, discussion, review, anecdote, spoof, and news item. These variations are known as GENRES
Due to the different generic structure of text types, though news item is in one group of narration genres with narrative and recount, understanding the structures on how the news item composed is absolutely important for better understanding on text genres which are different from one type to another. The following example of news item text is taken from the Jakarta post which is best in revealing what news item is and how it is structured.
Text can come from a lot of places, and it's important that if your application is available in a language that everything is translatable. The following is an exhaustive list of all places that you may find content you need to prepare for the translation process.
D. Definition of Facebook
Facebook is a social networking website launched in February 2004 and operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Users can add people as friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by workplace, school, or college. The website's name stems from the colloquial name of books given to students at the start of the academic year by university administrations in the US with the intention of helping students to get to know each other better. Anyone over the age of 13 can become a Facebook user.
E. Features on Facebook
Each Facebook profile has a "wall," where friends can post comments. Since the wall is viewable by all the user's friends, wall postings are basically a public conversation. Therefore, it is usually best not to write personal messages on your friends' walls. Instead, you can send a person a private message, which will show up in his or her private Inbox, similar to an e-mail message.
Facebook allows each user to set privacy settings, which by default are pretty strict. For example, if you have not added a certain person as a friend, that person will not be able to view your profile. However, you can adjust the privacy settings to allow users within your network (such as your college or the area you live) to view part or all of your profile. You can also create a "limited profile," which allows you to hide certain parts of your profile from a list of users that you select. If you don't want certain friends to be able to view your full profile, you can add them to your "limited profile" list.
Facebook provides an easy way for friends to keep in touch and for individuals to have a presence on the Web without needing to build a website. Since Facebook makes it easy to upload pictures and videos, nearly anyone can publish a multimedia profile. Of course, if you are a Facebook member or decide to sign up one day, remember to use discretion in what you publish or what you
post on other user's pages. After all, your information is only as public as you choose to make it!
Facebook has a feature called "status updates" (also referred to simply as "status") which allows users to post messages for all their friends to read. In turn, friends can respond with their own comments, and also press the "Like" button to show that they enjoyed reading it. A user's most recent status update appears at the top of their profile, and is also noted in the "Recently updated" section of a user's friend list.
Originally, the purpose of the feature was to allow users to inform their friends of their current "status" (i.e. their current feelings, whereabouts or actions) by referring to themselves in the third person (e.g. "George is happy" or "John is with Robert at his house"). However, users are no longer required to write in the third person. Facebook originally prompted the status update with "Username is..." and Facebook users filled in the rest. However, on December 13, 2007, the requirement to start a status update with is removed. The question "What are you doing right now?" was introduced. In March 2009, the status update question was changed from "What are you doing right now?" to "What's on your mind?"
Facebook Notes was introduced on 22 August 2006, a blogging feature that allowed tags and embeddable images. Users were later able to import blogs from Xanga, Live Journal, Blogger, and other blogging services. A recent use of Notes includes the Internet meme - "25 Random Things about Me" which involves writing 25 things about the user that their friends don't already know about them and using the tag function to ask 25 friends to also do so. Nearly 5 million "25 Random Things" notes were written on Facebook profiles in the first week of February 2009.
CHAPTER III
FINDING DATA
The data that I get for making this paper are from many book and internet. The book that I get is explained about writing and the important in learning writing skill. Not only it but also I research the material for making paper from internet, I get many explain about writing, news item text, type of making text, facebook, and the most important from using facebook.
Writing is the representation of language in a textual medium through the use of a set of signs or symbols (known as a writing system). It is distinguished from illustration, such as cave drawing and painting, and non-symbolic preservation of language via non-textual media, such as magnetic tape audio.
Writing is an extension of human language across time and space. Writing most likely began as a consequence of political expansion in ancient cultures, which needed reliable means for transmitting information, maintaining financial accounts, keeping historical records, and similar activities. Around the 4th millennium BC, the complexity of trade and administration outgrew the power of memory, and writing became a more dependable method of recording and presenting transactions in a permanent form. In both Mesoamerica and Ancient Egypt writing may have evolved through calendrics and a political necessity for recording historical and environmental events.
News item is a text which informs readers about events of the day. The events are considered newsworthy or important.
Facebook is a social networking website launched in February 2004 and operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Users can add people as friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by workplace, school,
or college. The website's name stems from the colloquial name of books given to students at the start of the academic year by university administrations in the US with the intention of helping students to get to know each other better. Anyone over the age of 13 can become a Facebook user.
Text can come from a lot of places, and it's important that if your application is available in a language that everything is translatable. The following is an exhaustive list of all places that you may find content you need to prepare for the translation process.
CHAPTER IV
ANALYSES
Writing is very important in our daily, because with writing we can share all about our problem especially for students, they can practice their writing through facebook. In facebook we can write anything else that in your own. Writing can improve your writing ability, creativity.
Learning to write in a new language is not always easy, it is challenging but it can also be fun. If you are learning to speak and read in a new language, you are ready to begin too. The easy way to begin writing is to write about things you know well. For example, wring about your self, about your family and friends, daily activities, about people, about places, news item text and another that you want to write from your own.
Facebook is a social networking website that can be used for all people in this world. Users can add people as friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. With it they can always study and practice their writing trough it. For students that get the job from their lecturer or teacher they can send their writing job for example news item text, they can sent it trough message, but most of students usually use note to send their job. Then with it every people can read our writing job in note, and can improve our knowledge.
Facebook is not just a great way for you to find old friends or learn about what’s happening this weekend; it is also can used for learning tool. Teachers can used Facebook for class projects, for enhancing communication, and for engaging students in a manner that might not be entirely possible in traditional classroom settings. Read on to learn how you can be using Facebook in your classroom, no matter if you are a professor, student, working online, or showing up in person for class. One of them is teaching news item texts through facebook.
Therefore, by facebook we can also write news item text through facebook by facebook you can create your own news source. They can practice their writing by use the Facebook status update feed as a breaking news source for sports results, academic competition results, and other campus news. Follow news stories. Keep up with news through Facebook on groups like World News Web cast that provides video clips of world news.
The relationship of writing news item text and facebook is very important especially for students, because with facebook the students can improve their writing skill trough facebook. They can write anything in inbox, sent message, and note. In news item text they are divided into narrative, recount, descriptive, report, explanation, analytical exposition, hortatory exposition, procedure, discussion, review, anecdote, spoof, and news item.
BAB V
CONCLUSION
Writing is very important, especially for students in learning process. By writing they can create their own, creativity and anything else that they want to write. One of the examples is writing news item text trough facebook. They can write and share anything in facebook, they can enjoy it to practice their writing. For students when get the job from their teacher or lecturer they can send it through message or note, it is the easily way and another people can read our job, it also can improve the other people knowledge. Facebook is the famous one of technology in this world, because there is no one a person doesn’t know about it. There are so many advantages in use facebook, for example we can add another friends, write anything that we want in wall, sent the job and so on. Based on generic structure and language feature dominantly used, texts are divided into several types. They are narrative, recount, descriptive, report, explanation, analytical exposition, hortatory exposition, procedure, discussion, review, anecdote, spoof, and news item.
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