THE COMPARISON BETWEEN WRITING for GENERAL COMMUNICATION and WRITING IN PROFESSIONAL CONTEXTS

The skill of writing is very important for the students of Language and Literature. In addition, English is the most global spoken language or an international language in this time. To develop student’s writing skill, English Department has two basic courses with different characteristics but complete each other.
Writing for General contexts is one of skill courses which are aimed to give a good and acceptable English writing basic knowledge. Students of English department get this course in the first semester contains 2 credit hours. After considering the function, this course gives the students : a) Writing skill include general English grammar, some steps of writing begin from finding the idea until editing process, developing a topic becomes a coherent paragraph also practicing to write; b) Recognizing and writing many works of writing genres, especially exposition, narration, and description; c) Developing the positive attitude of writing by a freedom to write many topics which are familiar with student’s daily life such as a profile, biography, decrypting a place until sharing arguments with a peer editing and getting a feedback.
To get those aims above, learning activity applies expository approaches, collaborative writing in a group discussion, and individual participation. Upon the completion of this course, students are be able to 1) Have a basic skill to write in English that good and acceptable; 2) Understand many genres of writing, especially description, narration, exposition also make a short writing on that genre; 3) Have a confidence in starting to write in English for some general themes.
In other side, Writing in Professional contexts is one of Skill Courses in English Education Department. Students get this course in second semester. It has 2 credits hours. This course consists of 1) English writing capability with good and acceptable grammatical structure and vocabularies in professional career contexts as an English teacher also developing main ideas become the coherent essay. 2) Understanding of writing in workplace contexts by practicing to write expository and persuasive to inform and petition. 3) Developing an accurate awareness of information and petition when produce a writing for student’s profession. Some of the activities are practical training of writing criticism, various kinds of texts (procedure, exposition, argumentative, explanation, narrative) and some works of literature like poetry and short stories.

By: Rini