CRITICAL BOOK REPORT

ADV. WRITING

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1. AldaMustika ( 2183520018)

Class : English Literature 18 A

PRODI BAHASA DAN SASTRA INGGRIS

FAKULTAS BAHASA DAN SENI

UNIVERSITAS NEGERI MEDAN

2019
 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Table of Contents ...................................................................................................... i

Preface......................................................................................................................ii

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background ........................................................................................................ 1
1.2 Problem Formulation Purpose and Benefits ...................................................... 1

CHAPTER 2 CONTENTS OF THE BOOK

2.1 Book Identity ..................................................................................................... 2
2.2 Summary of The Book ....................................................................................... 2
CHAPTER 3 CRITICIZE
3.1 Strength .............................................................................................................. 7
3.2 Weakness ........................................................................................................... 7
CHAPTER 4 CLOSING
4.1 Conclusion ......................................................................................................... 8
4.2 Suggestion .......................................................................................................... 8
 PREFACE

Our praise and thanks to God Almighty for his blessings and blessings so we are still given
the opportunity to be able to resolve the critical book report with the title “COLLEGE
ACADEMIC WRITING A GENRE BASED PERSPECTIVE and THE ART OF SCIENCETIFIC
WRITING ”, hopefully this critical book report can add insights and knowledge to readers.
In writing this critical book report, we certainly cannot solve it ourselves without help from
other parties. Therefore, we thanks to:

1. Our Parents
2. Our Lecturer, Dr.I Wy Dirgeyasa,M.Hum

We realize that this critical journal review is far from perfect because there are still many
shortcomings. Therefore, we with all humility apologize and hope for constructive criticism and
suggestions for future improvements and improvements.

Finally, we wish you a happy reading and hopefully the material in the critical book report
in the form of this paper can be useful as it should for the readers.

Medan, November 2019

Writers
 CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

A. Background

This critical book report contains the strength, weakness and conclusions of the book
entitled
"SCIENTIFIC WRITING "as a learning media in universities and the commercialization of
education in Indonesia. And we will make a summary of the book.
In this critical Book report, we will explain the problem through the following discussion.
Hopefully this effort can be useful for the general reader and for the constituent in particular.

B. Problem Formulation

The formulation of the problem in writing critical book reportcan be described as follows.:
1. What is the review and summary of the book?
2. What are the strength and the weakness of the book?

C. Purpose and Benefits of Writing

The goals and benefits that the authors want to achieve in writing critical book report are to
invite the reader to better understand in depth the book.
 CHAPTER 2

DISCUSSION

A. Book Identity
 First Book
The identity of the Book that will be reviewed is as follows.

Title :COLLEGE ACADEMIC WRITING A GENRE BASED PERSPECTIVE

Author : Dr. I Wy. Dirgeyasa, M.Hum
Publisher : PRENADAMEDIA GROUP
Publication City : Jakarta , Indonesia
Publication Year : 2016
Edition : 2nd Revision
ISBN : 978-602-422-035-8
 Second Book

Title :THE ART OF SCIENCETIFIC WRITING

Author : Dr. I Wy. Dirgeyasa, M.Hum
Publisher : FBS UNIMED PRESS
Publication City : Medan , Indonesia
Publication Year : 2019
Edition : 1st Edition
ISBN : 978-623-90402-2-5

B. Review Book

 First Book

COLLEGE ACADEMIC WRITING A GENRE BASED PERSPECTIVE

CHAPTER 1 ( RECOUNT TEXT )

I. GETTING STARTED
A. Brainstorming
Everyone has something in the past. Some experiences in live may be interesting, few of them may
be bad, and the rests may be unforgettable. The past experiences and activities may color our lives.
They can be a mater of moral teaching or moral lesson that can be used as references to what to do
and what not to do next.

B. Think and Share

Before you go further to the next section, use your own knowledge and previous understanding
about the related topic to understand the following questions. Works in pairs and answer the
following question as well as possible.\
1. what is the most interesting experience you have ever had?
2. describe the worst thing you have ever had in your life
3. what do you know about the recount writing

II. THE ORIENTATION AND ELABORATION

A. Recount text

A recount text is the retelling or recounting of an event or an experience; or, recount is a text that
retells events or experiences in the past. In literary term, experience is what we do , feel , hear ,
read , even what we dream.
In term of written text, the past activities are designed and wrapped are recount text, which are not
similar to narrative genre. Narrative tends to be fictious while recount tells something real or
factual in the past.
Recount are often personal stories and they can be either factual or imaginative. Examples of
recount genre include a trip to the zoo which a family took yesterday, and events. In more ,
comprehensive definition, actually recount can be classified into three categories such as personal
recount, factual recount, and imaginative recount, each of them has specific characteristic and
details :
 Personal recount
This usually retells an events that the writer was personally involved in.
 Factual recount
It records and incidents, e.g . a science experiment, police reports.
 Imaginative recount
It is writing of an imaginary role and give details of events , e.g. A day in the life of pirates; how
I invented.

B. The social Function

In line with the concept above, the social function or purpose of recount is to inform and describe
past experiences by retelling events in the order in which they happened . then, in wider sense ,
recount is also used to retell events for the purpose of informing or entertaining their audiences. In
addition, the word event here means something real and factual or even imaginative.

C. The generic structure and textual elements

The above generic structure is a standard and common rhetorical structure of the genre recount
writing. As it is explained above, it consists of three main elements namely orientation , events ,
re- orientation. They have their own functions and characteristic . to have a clear and vivid structure
of recount writing. The format above can be drawn in physical sense as follow.
 The recount has a tittle, which usually summarize the text.
 It has specific participants.
 The basic recount consist of three parts.
 The details are selected to help the reader reconstruct the activity or incident.
 The ending may describe the outcome of the activity
 The details of time , place and incident need to be clearly
 The descriptive details may also be required to provide information.
 It includes personal thoughts
The related vocabulary usages

In general , the related vocabulary usages of the recount writing in common are :
 It uses material processes
 It focuses on specific participants depending on the topic discussed words and relating to
material process and circumstances of time and place
 It focuses on temporal sequence
 It uses time words to connect events
 The noun groups describes people and places
 The uses adjective functions to indicate mood of the events or personal attitude

III. THE TEACHING AND LEARNING MODEL.

As elaborated in the previous section , the process of teaching and learning genre writing falls into
three main stages such as ; 1. Modelling text 2. Modifying text and 3. Independent text. This course
book will show the systematic step of teaching and learning writing through genre approach.

 Second Book
THE ART OF SCIENCETIFIC WRITING
Introduction
A. what is an introduction ?
In term of any longer writings such as essay writing and or scientific writing, the introduction or
introductory section plays important rules. Introduction is also sometime called background
introducing the reader to the larger context for the specific study to understand why the topic is
relevant, important and thus why you have carried out you study.

B. what to write in introduction section

Writing introduction is actually relatively hard to do for many writers, especially the beginners.
Many writers often fails to write the introduction in once or twice or even three times. This show
that writing introduction needs a lot of practices and exercises. The more important points is what
is written in introduction or in introductory section.
The specific section then tend to lead the statement for formulated in line with topic. It is also tells
background of the study or writing how you have come up with your research question . it includes
a literature review to make clear to what extent the question has been addressed by other, but it
should be not summarize everything that is somehow related to your topic. If a researcher report
requires a more comprehensive review or explanation of the theory, this could be included as a
separate chapter after the introduction chapter. As a matter facts, a topic or theme of research or
scientific writing is actually a matter of repititation , you are not advisedly to state in your
background that your writing is totally new and never be done before by the writer.

To formulate a good question , it is essential to consider the followings :

 The question is important, relevant , and interesting
 The question is simple and suffcienly specific to be answered in your study.
 The question is measurable.
 The question is feasible.

C. how to organize the introduction ?

It is a fact that this point often become the writer’s weakness when writing. He does not know and
where to put idea in paper properly.
As matter of fact, during my experiences to teaching writing and also to guiding the students to
writing thesis, I found some different and unique common pattern or lay out of introduction in
student writing such as upside down triangle , rectangle , squale , etc. here are some common
pattern of student introduction or inductor section that re found the student writing.
 CHAPTER 3
CRITICIZE

3.1 The Strength Book

the advantage of the Book that I read is that describes reading and at the time of this study, the
research was completed with clear source data and in the Book it was very clear in discussing good
use. in the two books that I criticize, the two books have different advantages, namely: in the first
book, the book is very clear about its contents and there are also examples of tasks that can be
understood. and in the second book, a very clear book also on the content, but this book is more
detailed explaining the explanation speech that is very clear and has many examples so that it is

easy to understand too .

3.2 The Weakness Book

According to my analysis, the second book has only a few weaknesses, namely, in the second
book, although the book is very much an explanation than the first book but the second book is
somewhat more difficult to make an example and a little difficult to understand it.
 CHAPTER 4
CLOSING

4.1 Conclusion
Each paper must have different characteristone another, both in terms of language, advantages,
and disadvantages. Definite books contain information that has been clearly described by the
author regardless of the shortcomings contained in each book, but it can be ascertained that each
book will bring benefits to the reader in terms of more information income.

In this book, information is very abundant which makes the reader interested in reading or
analyzing this book as we have done. Above we have submitted a summary and also the advantages
and disadvantages of each book that is expected to be a comparison between the opinions of the
readers of the book.