Fakhri Huza Case

Name : Fakhri Huza

48133/2004

2D Reguler

GET READY TO BE AN AUTHOR

BY READING

Writing is something difficult for some people. Particularly for students, writing is a big problem. Most of them said that they do not have any idea to write. Even they do not know how to start writing. They have so many difficulties in writing. Actually most of them are lack of reading. This problem is not only happen in writing short story, novel and others fiction books but also in writing thesis, paper or final assignment for college or university's students. Plagiarism sometimes can be the only way to solve this problem. How students will have an idea if they have less knowledge.

The most important thing to do is reading. By reading many books students can enrich their vocabularies. Not only vocabularies they will also have many styles from many authors. "the more you read, the more you get." It is the right proverb related to this problem. Mohammad Diponegoro as cited in Aswi (2006) said that "the only one suggestion for beginner author is something new for them, that is reading." There are three methods to get ready to be an author. The first one is copying the master method, the second one is writing is easy method and the last one is writing by using five senses method. In my opinion, writing by using the five

senses method is better than the others method.

Hundreds years ago in China, students who wanted to be a painter or learned painting should imitate several paintings from experts or famous painters. They had to do this for several times until their paintings were really similar with expert's paintings. After that they were given another painting from an expert or famous painter. They had to do the same thing until they caught the expert's style. By doing this method, they would have many examples and styles from expert. Finally, they would find their own style.

"The copying the master method" is a method that students are given several examples from experts. They have to read them for several times. After that they have to rewrite for several times, too. They have to do this for several times until their writings are as similar as the original one. JK Rowing (the author of Harry Potter) as cited in Aswi (2006) said that "everybody has to read many books in order to catch the style from expert." Reading can improve student's vocabularies and style. But if students have to start writing, they have to write by using their own style.

This method is useful for students because reading is necessary for students. Students have to read more than usual. Students have to read many more books everyday. For the first time it is quite difficult for students because of limited categories of books. Yet, it does not really matter because students should not have to read specific book but students may read any book which has knowledge, anytime, and anywhere they like. For example they may read magazines or newspapers at home, they may read books in the library. Finally students will be familiar with reading. They will choose reading to be one of their hobbies. The problem is most of students do not