Introductory Paragraph - Enhancing Reading culture and Writing skill utilizing Figment.com

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Enhancing Reading culture and Writing skill utilizing Figment.com

(I) Reading and writing is an activity performed individually. But both of these activities is difficult to be lived by everyone, especially students in Indonesia. Because reading and writing is an activity that requires a sense of love and commitment, especially in reading and writing in English. (R) Although the Internet and the school has been provided a lot of reading to speak English, but students still do not like reading and writing. There are barriers to why students in Indonesia do not like to read and write the English language that is because the students do not understand the meaning of the passage and difficult to write grammatically correct. (G) However, the challenge for any English teacher is how to make students love to read and write in English. (F) This article will describe how to use the website figment.com to increase students' interest in reading and writing in English. The trick is (1) choose a genre that you like reading or cover (2) read a book that has been selected and retell what has been read (3) start writing.

Most students prefer to read a book of non-formal than formal book. In figment.com there are many non-formal selection of books that can be selected according to their tastes. There are 34 books in the genre figment.com. there is action, adventure, biography, comedy, contemporary, cyberpunk, detective fiction, drama, dystopian, essays & Articles, fanfiction, fantasy, flash fiction, historical, horror, memoir, mystery, non-fiction, novel, paranormal, plays & screenplays, poetry, religious, romance, science fiction, serial, short stories, sports, steampunk, suspense, thriller, urban, western and writing. First thing you should do is sign in students in figment.com. They can sign in through social media such as facebook and twitter or students can sign in with their email address. After signing in, students can choose what genre of books that they read or the student can choose to see the cover of the book.

After students choose the book you want to read, then the second way is to read books that they had chosen. When they read and they find a vocabulary that is not understood, then the student must write the vocabulary in their notebooks with meaning as well. Teachers can also send students to read more than one book because in figment.com. Many books in figment.com only have one chapter. After the students read the book, the teacher gave the assignment to students to retell the stories they read. Students can retell the reading with writing or orally in the classroom using the English language. If students want to retell the writing, then students can write in 100-150 words.

The third is to start writing. After the students read the book and retelling about the books they read. The next is to start writing stories with the values contained in the books they read but with their version, or students can also write a story about the parody of the book or the students can write a novel as they wish, or write poetry. After the students wrote, the students post their writings on figment.com. They can give tags in every book that they post as #novel #romance. Students are also able to provide cover from the writing that they post on figment.com.

In conclusion, individual activities such as reading and writing is difficult to do. However, with a sense of love and commitment, we can accustom ourselves to start reading and writing, especially in English. Figment.com is a website that can help students to improve the habits of students in reading and writing in English that is the way to choose the books they want, start reading and retelling the content of the passage and the latter began to write what they want.