1.            Write your experience in studying writing

I am a part of English Department state university of Padang. I am a student in K2. Last semester became the second semester for me. At the time, I studied many subject. They were reading, listening, introduction to linguistics , and also paragraph writing. Paragraph writing is a new subject in the second semester. My friend and I studied with Mr. Saunir and Mrs. Fitrawati. At the beginning of meeting, Mr. Saunir gave some introduction about paragraph writing, and also Mrs. Fitrawati.

In the second meeting, I started to study basic of paragraph. Ms. Fitrawati explained about paragraph structure. What is topic sentence, supporting sentence, and concluding sentence. In contrast, Mr. Saunir asked us to write free paragraph. For the first time I wrote a paragraph, there were difficulties. I lost my idea to write that paragraph. I did not find the topic sentence. I also did not know what I am going to do. Not only about paragraph writing,  Mr.Saunir and Ms. Fitrawati also taught about essay. They taught how to make an essay. Although, make an essay is not easy, but I must do it. In addition, they always gave us assignment to write an essay for each meeting.

When I tried to make an essay, I followed some suggestions that I ever got from my lecturer. I am going to catch the topic sentence. After I got the topic sentence, I started to get the supporting sentences. It means, I read some references to make the topic sentence to be through and to prove that paragraph. I wrote some supporting details to develop and support the main idea of paragraph. At the last of a paragraph, I put concluding sentence. The aim of  concluding sentence is to restates the topic sentence with different word, and then I gave the reader important point to remember. As a result, I was success make an essay.