Sesi 1 | Memahami Esai Secara Luas

Hello everyone, I'm here, Rita, in

session one, everyone knows, everyone is capable of

virtual essay training session 1,

namely understanding essays broadly. Okay,

let's start learning in session one. The

first thing is that we have to know first what an

essay is. Here I have made it, so it's a

way to express opinions and

ideas that we have regarding a

phenomenon that occurs. The point is that in

writing an essay, we mean

expressing or making an idea, an

opinion, there are facts, there are opinions

related to a phenomenon related to something,

yes, or related to an issue that occurs.

Well, the phenomenon, the issue or the thing that we

write is usually related to the

themes of the SH. Well, if we

talk about essays in the context of the

millions of competitions, the phenomenon is usually a

problem, an issue, or a topic that is currently being

discussed, for example,

during the Covid-19 pandemic, when I

saw some information about the competition,

the committee often gave

themes related to the Covid-19 pandemic, such as

how to improve the

immune system in the midst of a pandemic, then

how to prevent the transmission of

Covid-19 and other Covid-19 related themes.

Well, that's usually seen from what is

currently happening, next, there are no

standard rules regarding the minimum and

maximum length of an essay that is said to be

good and of good quality, so for writing an

essay, there are no standard rules, for

example, writing in 5

pages means That is yes I am

good and qualified If writing

with a number of 1000 words means good and

quality so there are no standard rules

Well to create a good

and quality essay is not only from the number of

pages the number of pages usually

yes we will follow how many are

requested from the guide but more What is the

content of the essay Well if we

see if it is intended to

convey an opinion in a newspaper or

website one page is considered enough Well

if for example friends want to write an

essay to be written in a newspaper for example

published in a newspaper or

published on a website

my recommendation is yes one page is

enough no need for 5 pages or 10

pages because it is too long

for the size of a newspaper or website but

if for a competition essay in general it is

between 7 to 15 pages but can

change according to the committee's provisions Once

again There are no standard rules all go back

to the organizer or the guide

but in general there are 7 to 15

pages or there are also

5-10 pages but it is adjusted again

to the guide if the committee does

ask for 5-10 pages means friends

can write a minimum of 5 essays and a

maximum of 10 like that So there are no

specific rules for the entire

essay writing Okay, continuing the contents of the essay

in general can be grouped into

two things, namely facts and opinions

in writing an essay there must be facts

or truths that can support

your opinion or opinion for example

you are in making a solution from the

fact Well for Facts are

things that have been proven to be true

cannot be manipulated cannot be

made up the point is Facts are

something that is true in an essay usually

the writing of this fact is located in the

introduction for example the theme is about

diabetes mellitus or you want to

write diabetes mellitus then in the

introduction there are facts about diabetes

mellitus for example description of diabetes

mellitus according to experts according to

various trusted sources then

data on cases of diabetes mellitus Who is the

vulnerable group of diabetes

mellitus for example the

vulnerable group is the

elderly or elderly then what is the

impact of diabetes mellitus if it

affects the elderly then what are the

factors causing the elderly to experience

diabetes mellitus Well there must be

facts or you have to involve

various trusted sources to

answer all of that and you write it in the

introduction Okay let's continue to

discuss opinions opinion is

one of someone's opinions or thoughts

on something or

phenomenon in essence this opinion is

our opinion on a phenomenon

that we have written in the

introduction based on existing facts

well in writing opinions it is usually

written in the discussion or content of the essay

for example in the introduction or in In the

fact section, you create an incident of

diabetes mellitus or the phenomenon of diabetes

mellitus where the elderly are a

vulnerable group, then you can express your

opinion or opinion in the

discussion section, saying that I

offer Program a which makes the

elderly as its target. Why

the elderly? Because it is supported by

existing facts that the elderly are a

vulnerable group and several

other facts that you have written

and you have searched in several

trusted sources. So in essence, in

giving an opinion, it must be

supported by facts, even though it is

our opinion, but we should not

just give an opinion but not

based on existing facts.

For example, regarding the issue of cervical cancer,

we know that the fact is that

cervical cancer is only potentially

affected by women because only

women have a cervix,

men do not have a cervix.

Therefore, we can make

women the target of the vaccine,

for example, not men as the target of the

vaccine. Okay, let's move on to the

types of essays. The first is a

narrative essay. A narrative essay is an essay that

aims to tell an

event that occurred. The event can

be a personal experience of the writer

or another person. The point in

this narrative essay is to

tell an event that occurred.

This event is a

personal experience of the writer himself

or a personal experience of another person.

Then the second is a descriptive essay. A

descriptive essay is an essay that

aims to describing something

can be a person, place, object, or

memory that is very important, the essence of

this descriptive essay from the word is

descriptive, that is, description means we

describe something, be it a person,

place, or object, different from

narrative essay, that is, an essay that tells

an experience,

then there is excite expository,

this essay presents a balanced analysis of

a topic using facts,

data, and examples, discussing cause and

effect, comparison, and contrast, and

a procedure or process, so in

this expository essay, we will

emphasize the facts, data, and

examples, we also emphasize cause and

effect, for example, the flood

was caused by piled up garbage,

well, we explain that in the

expository essay, then there is a persuasive essay,

this essay aims to convince

readers of the ideas

conveyed, using facts, logic, examples of

expert opinions, and

reasonable reasoning, so because this persuasive essay

is an essay, we invite

someone to believe and want to

do whatever

we write in an essay, so it

must use facts, logic, examples of

expert opinions, and reasonable reasoning

for many people, well, for the essay

itself, there are two, scientific essays and

popular essays, well, then we can

see that this scientific essay is an essay that

aims to explain with a

scientific approach, discussing

diabetes, for example,

using the term diabetes

mellitus, the language rigid and uses

scientific principles prioritizing

research facts so from the name itself, a

scientific essay means that it

prioritizes or carries out

this scientific approach with its

rigid language prioritizing research facts

even the terms are also scientific like

diabetes

mellitus is used and usually in

writing

it will have the potential to be understood by

people who have the

same educational background or background

from the results of the writing for example in

the field of health, a scientific essay on health

is probably the one who will understand it as a

whole are people who have a

health background,

unlike a popular essay, if a

popular essay is delivered more casually

and is easier for the

general public to understand so it doesn't matter what the

educational background or background is,

but indeed I am popular, the

target is the general public, so it

emphasizes the author's arguments more

than discussions related to

scientific methodology So there will be

many arguments from the author

compared to the

scientific essay earlier If my popular one is

more argumentative and he doesn't really

prioritize

scientific methodology and is not fixated on

scientific principles, the composition of the reference list is not

as much as a scientific essay, so it is different from a

scientific essay, there are lots of

reference lists because there are indeed various

research results that must be put forward,

unlike a popular essay Okay,

let's continue to dissect the theme and we are good, this is

suitable for using what kind of essay

with what approach, for example, the

first one is the theme of an inspirational story about studying

abroad, here we can

use a narrative essay with a

popular essay approach. Why? Because

this narrative essay, as

I explained earlier, we

tell, yes, tell our

personal experiences, either from ourselves or the writer

or the personal experiences of

others. Here we can tell

How is our story, How is

our story about studying abroad,

and in telling it, we don't

use stiff language, we

use a more relaxed language

with the target being the wider community,

so we can approach it

with a

popular essay. Well, in this writing, we

usually

use more words, I initially went

abroad, now I am studying

at this university. Well, it's more relaxed in

its delivery, then there is theme 2,

if I were a minister of

education, here we use a

descriptive essay with a popular essay approach.

Why? Because we

describe, we describe

ourselves, what

if I were a

minister of education, what would I

do? Then we describe

the situation, we

describe the time, and the

approach is also the same, namely the

popular essay approach because it uses a

more relaxed language, we don't. Based on

various studies, the third theme is

cigarettes and poverty. using

expository essay with scientific essay approach

Why because one of the reasons for

using expository essay is the

existence of cause and effect for example

cigarettes and cigarettes cause

poverty Well then there is a

scientific essay approach Why is there a

scientific essay approach because we

have to prioritize research methods

or various research results we can

say that cigarettes cause

poverty based on

research we can't just

say Oh it turns out cigarettes cause

poverty, whether it's a

direct impact or an indirect impact,

yes, all of that must have

research results The process of conveying

information or conveying the essay also

uses rigid language then

also prioritizes scientific rules there are

various data there are various

research results and

other types of scientific Then for the

essay structure there are three there is

an introduction there is content and there is a conclusion and

this we will discuss in the next session

Okay everyone that's all for session one in the

virtual essay training and see you

again in the next session bye