Essay Writing Skills among Indonesian Students: An Analysis of Seven Essays on SDGs 2030, Lecture notes of Sustainable Development

Download Essay Writing Skills among Indonesian Students: An Analysis of Seven Essays on SDGs 2030 and more Lecture notes Sustainable Development in PDF only on Docsity! NOVATEUR PUBLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INNOVATIONS IN ENGINEERING RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY [IJIERT] ISSN: 2394-3696 Website: ijiert.org VOLUME 7, ISSUE 6, June-2020 75 | P a g e DEVELOPING ESSAY WRITING SKILLS IN WELCOMING THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 4.0 TO SUPPORT LITERACY POSITION INDONESIAN NATION DR. HINDUN, M.Pd. hindun@uinjkt.ac.id ABSTRACT Not everyone likes to write. Posts that are popular with audiences are also various types. From light to heavy content, fiction and nonfiction types to writing that is more dominated by images such as "comic" (pictorial stories) or dialog filled text (text or drama scripts). An issue that is dealt with in passing in a prose essay based on the author's personal point of view is called Essay. Essay writing requires writing skills with a mastery of content accompanied by opinions, of course using the right grammar. Language that is good and true and acceptable to readers becomes the most important part of writing skills. Therefore, writing as a supreme skill in the order of language skills becomes an indispensable thing in compiling an essay. The purpose of this paper is to describe essay writing skills among students as an illustration of high-level skills in Indonesian. Descriptive qualitatively, the researcher will inform the reader of concrete forms of essay writing skills in terms of the suitability of the themes, main ideas / ideas, arguments, and writing / grammar used. Through a study that focuses on discussions around the 2030 SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals), the researcher knows the students' thoughts in the form of opinions that are aligned with the seventeen goals of the SDGs 2030 namely five objectives namely goals number 4, 5, 9, 11, and 16. KEYWORDS:Essay writing, literacy position SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals)2030 INTRODUCTION Encouraging students to always be enthusiastic about writing becomes the task of lecturers in the academic world. To get used to writing, it begins with a lot of reading. If someone already has a lot of reading results that are summarized in his memory, then to change it into written form will be easier. Of course, with a lot of practice accompanied by a penchant or a tendency towards the choice of activities in life. Researchers are reminded of opinions (Godzich; 1994) that when the United States is aware of a decline in competitiveness, the curriculum solution is to require composing lessons at primary and secondary education levels. As it is known that reading lessons are intertwined with writing lessons. Writing lessons are not just placed in the corner of language subjects, but rather a separate subject that is integrated with all subjects. Writing skills are the basis for developing logic, systematic, researching, and creating skills. Some of what was conveyed by Godzich had a point and some of course it had to be adjusted to the conditions of the times. Among them what researchers mean is the mention of "subjects" which then turn into "fields of study" then change again in Indonesia with "K13 (Curriculum 2013)" to "themes and subthemes" in the integration of materials or teaching materials, and so on. Writing an essay with the theme "The Role and Innovation of Indonesian Youth in Delivering SDGs 2030" begins with knowledge of the SDGs 2030. A global development agreement containing seventeen objectives that was officially adopted on 25 September 2015 at the UN Headquarters (United Nations). About 193 heads of state were present, including Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla, at that time (2014-2019 period) also ratified the SDGs Agenda. Different from its predecessor MDGs (Millennium Development Goals), SDGs are designed to involve all development actors, be it the Government, CSO (Civil Society Organization), the private sector, academics, and so on. Approximately 8.5 million citizens' votes worldwide also contribute to the SDGs Goals and Targets. NOVATEUR PUBLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INNOVATIONS IN ENGINEERING RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY [IJIERT] ISSN: 2394-3696 Website: ijiert.org VOLUME 7, ISSUE 6, June-2020 76 | P a g e OBJECTIVES This research focuses on developing essay writing skills. Through an event, writings in the form of student product essays from various representatives of tertiary institutions have been collected. The theme used as a limitation for writing this essay is "The Role and Innovation of Indonesian Youth in Creating SDGs 2030" with the sub-theme "Education, Social, Economic, Science and Applied". Gathering various information which then finds a problem and then discusses it in passing is a skill that deserves to be appreciated. Therefore, the essays submitted in this event become an achievement in writing skills. Moreover, students have gone through the process of reading and understanding this information as knowledge so that they are able to convey it in their perspective. This is called learning. The existence of "the process of interaction between human beings (id-ego-super ego) with the surrounding environment that is personal, facts, concepts or theories. Here is the meaning of the interaction process, namely (1) the process of internalization within the learner, (2) is carried out actively by involving all five senses." Seven essays were assessed by researchers as concrete manifestations of students' ability in the country to develop writing skills. The essays were written by representative students from colleges or universities namely: Tazkia Institute, Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta, Bogor Agriculture Institute, Brawijaya University, and Padjajaran University Bandung. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY The methodology used is using qualitative research. Creswell revealed that, ³you can approach research in two ways ±through a quantitative study or a qualitative study- depending on the type of problem you need to research´ The sentence explains that, one can conduct research in two ways, namely quantitative and qualitative, depending on the type of problem needed in research. Determining an approach to be used in a study must be in accordance with existing data. Each approach has a way of analyzing different data. Therefore, a researcher must choose the approach that will function properly. Researchers read one by one the essay and then examined it by benchmarking the categories in writing skills so that the desired standards were realized. Use assessment categories from the aspects of the suitability of themes, ideas, arguments, and writing (conformity with "General Guidelines for Indonesian Spelling"). The available data is in the form of essays totaling seven. These essays are of course categorized as targets or targets for sending student writings to events that are held, so that they are in accordance with the focus of research that will be reviewed by researchers in this paper. The suitability of the theme in question is the topic in accordance with the themes and sub themes of the essay that have been determined and the suitability seen from the title and content of the essay. The second assessment category is in the form of "ideas", meaning that the presentation of ideas must be innovative supported by comprehensive data and facts. Then what is meant by the "argumentation" evaluation category is the suitability of the written description with the data referenced and the ability to analyze the data and formulate conclusions. Finally, the category of "writing order" evaluation means the neatness of type, layout / margins, number of pages, accuracy and clarity of expression, according to PUEBI (General Guidelines for Indonesian Spelling). DISCUSSIONS AND SUGGESTION Essay-written writings as a product of students from various tertiary educational institutions consist of seven titles namely "The Role of Students in Printing Excellence in Indonesian Education through Digital Literacy Culture", "Equitable Education in Indonesia through Pethahelix Collaboration to Achieve Advanced and Empowering Indonesia "," Youth Creation Needs a Palace "," Sexuality Education, the Main Gateway to Youth to Eliminate Sexual Violence in Women as an Effort to Realize the 5th SDGs "," The Role of Youth NOVATEUR PUBLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INNOVATIONS IN ENGINEERING RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY [IJIERT] ISSN: 2394-3696 Website: ijiert.org VOLUME 7, ISSUE 6, June-2020 79 | P a g e Next is listed in Lectura Journal: Journal of Education, Vol 9, No. 1, February 2018 written by M. Fadhly Farhy Abbas and Herdi entitled "Analysis of the Essence of Argumentative Essay Writing (5th Semester Student English Education Study Program, FKIP UNILAK) 2017/2018 Academic Year ". The research aims to analyze the ability of students to write argumentative essays used as evaluation material for Academic Writing courses. Using quantitative methods and obtained an average value of students is 78.1 RESULT The expected results in this study certainly want to get a concrete picture of essay writing skills among students from various tertiary institutions. The figures that appear are the results of the assessment of researchers in which each aspect of the assessment is limited by the value or maximum points. Aspect compatibility of the theme is worth a maximum of 20 points. The idea aspect is worth a maximum of 30 points. The argumentation aspect is worth a maximum of 30 points, and the writing aspect is worth a maximum of 20 points. The following are the results of the evaluation of the seven essays which are described in tabular form according to the category aspects of assessment. No Essay title from college Assesment Aspects Total score 1 2 3 4 1 The Role of Students in Printing Excellence Indonesian Education Through Digital Literacy Culture UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta 20 24 27 13 84 2 Equitable Education in Indonesia Through "Pethahelix Collaboration" to Achieve Advanced and Empowering Indonesia Institut Tazkia 20 26 25 18 89 3 Youth Creations Need a Palace UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta 20 17 24 9 70 4 Sexuality Education, the Main Gateway for Youth to Eliminate Sexual Violence in Women as an Effort to Realize the 5th SDGs Institut Pertanian Bogor 20 15 25 11 71 5 The Role of Youth in Sustainable Development Planning Through Active, Participatory and Competitive Concepts (APK) for the Realization of Eleventh Point SDGs 2030 is Suistainable Cities and Communities Universitas Brawijaya 20 14 26 10 70 6 The Effect of Character Education on Youth Morals in Indonesia in Achieving SDGs 2030 Universitas Brawijaya 19 10 24 12 65 7 Studentpreneur: Actualization of Entrepreneurship Learning Through the Establishment of a Business Incubator for Students to Achieve Economic Growth and Decent Work in Achieving SDGs 2030 Universitas Padjajaran 20 25 25 16 86 The highest score on the title essay number 2 = 89 NOVATEUR PUBLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INNOVATIONS IN ENGINEERING RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY [IJIERT] ISSN: 2394-3696 Website: ijiert.org VOLUME 7, ISSUE 6, June-2020 80 | P a g e INFORMATION: 1. Suitability of the theme 2. The idea 3. Arguments 4. Writing procedures The suitability of the theme of the essays submitted has a high level of conformity, except for the one with a little less value, namely in the essay entitled "The Effect of Character Education on Moral Youth in Indonesia in Achieving SDGs 2030". The author of the essay has stated that his moral youth has been declining over the years, without reinforced by concrete evidence or just opinion who then "as if to blame" or lead to the cause of the moral crisis is the younger generation, whereas the title is to describe how the influence of character education on morals young man. This is stated in the third paragraph of the essay written by students from Universitas Brawijaya. The highest aspect of "idea" is worth 26 with the title "Equitable Education in Indonesia Through" Pethahelix Collaboration "to Realize Advanced and Empowering Indonesia. The essay writer begins by explaining the background reasons for the condition of underdevelopment in the field of education of Indonesian society which is in the seventh position at the ASEAN level. A score of 0.622 as the latest data released by Human Development Reports in 2017 provides the basis for examining three main issues that hamper development in education, including access, quality, and equity. The idea given by the essay writer is to bring up the concept of "PENTAHELIX". These three problems can be comprehensively solved and corrected through the concept of mutually beneficial collaboration between one another in welcoming the 21st century. The concept was called pentahelix or ABCGM by involving 5 parties consisting of academics (A), entrepreneurs (B), communities (C), government (G) and media (M). The highest aspect of "argumentation" valuation is 26 with the essay title "The Role of Youth in Sustainable Development Planning Through Active, Participatory and Competitive Concepts (APK) for the Realization of Eleventh Point SDGs 2030". Heri Febriansyah began the essay with an explanation of the current population conditions namely the demographic bonus period, where the productive age is far more than the unproductive age. Argumentative urging reasons were expressed regarding the readiness of the community in facing a more modern life which had to be built early on, so that Indonesian people would not always rely on the state in meeting the needs of life. The highest aspect of "writing" is 18 and the lowest is nine with the essay entitled "Youth Creation Needed by the Palace". The part that highlights the major in this case includes the number of sentences in the first paragraph in this essay that is still lacking, because it is only one sentence long. 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