Communication Skills for Joint Degree Students: Week 2 January 19 - 23

2015-01-19- Monday

This day i meet again Mrs Dina Mustafa in second week. She coming in first because Mrs Paulina Panen, can't teaching us now. Before class start she give motivation to all students. She want we seriously  when learn something, because if not you can't get your dream, said Mrs Dina. 

She starting with giving some reading material and we devide in the group. In my group consist of four people, that is Vandha Pradwiyasma Widartha, Kiki Supendi, Heri Arum Nugroho and the beautiful one is Kadek Restu Yani. This day we learn about tables and figures, especially is why we using that. We explain to all people using presentation after that.

My result from this learning is important to using tables and figures when we want to write scientific paper, so we must know this basic idea. 

• Don't using to many text (crowded) with details, is better using table,

• If you have similar information in many area its easily if creating into one table,

• If a table just have few rows & columns is better in to using text,

• If you have difficult explanation with text or table is better to using a figure.

For home task she also giving to comparing tables and figures in reading paper with last paper with title: Research in computer science an empirical study. 

2015-01-20 - Tuesday

In this day me and all students also learn about tables and figures, now class is teaching by Mrs. Paulina Panen. She explain how to writing and discussing the research results. This is sample of structure how to being good research.

A. Introduction  -> background, problem statement.

B. Literature Review:

   1. Purpose of research

   2. Theory, previous research (using methods, variables, and result)

   3. Research framework ( using hypothesis, model, and operational definitions)

C. Methods Design:

  1. Design model with research

 2. Instrument (operational definition, sub variables, instrument) with data collecting strategy, respondents when and where.

D. Discussion -> using tables and figures.

E. Conclusion 

On 14 pm, we start again this course with Mrs. Rahayu Dwi Riyanti. She starting  this course with conversation how to formulate the question  during a class. More about that is how to delivering our idea/mind into another person with writing. Is better if you writing your question first before you asking, said Mrs.Yanti. After that we watching movie together and also asking question about that movies.

First movies talking about   how to creating a small mine craft house with cubes. Second movies we listening about algorithm topic with title: Balanced Search Trees. Until two movies me can hear clearly but we also see next movies which more difficult than before. I don't many understand about the last movie, it is because the music something bigger that conversation. 

2015-01-21 - Wednesday

We meet again Mrs. Rahayu at 9 AM. She tells us about how to making good claim and recounter claim to support our argument. We also must giving good evidence with tables and figures to completing good argument. Basicly this is sample of claim and recounter claim. 

Introduction/ thesis
Reeason 1 / Evidence
Reeason 2 / Evidence
Counter claim / Rebuttal
Conclusion / Restarted thesis

After that she giving us reading material about ICT in education and goverment. All of us making summary after that. This is my summary about ICT goverment in Japan from 1996 - 2000.

Every aspect when using ICT in Japan Central Goverment is decreasing from 1996 until 2000. Central Goverment is consist of: Local branch office, ministries and agencies, total central goverment, and facilities and instituties. There are also considering variation data beside that. For local branch office gets less from 3.5 in 1996 and gets 1.5 in 2000.  Ministries and agencies gets 1.5 in 1996 and in 2000 gets less than 1. Total central goverment get 1.5 in 1996 and gets less than 1 in 2000. Then facilitates and institutes less than in 1996 and get 0.5 in 2000. So that is all decreasing in japan central goverment in 1996 - 2000.

2015-01-22 - Thursday

There is not class in this day, Mrs Aline Almandha sick today. She gives task to me and my friends. Suddenly Mr Edo give task me to teaching in labolatorium room because students from SMKN 57 Jakarta was waiting for learn. He says to me, you can give them Hangout with Google+ and web conference using Webex by Cisco. Then i going to lab.

I am preparing projector in the lab before starting class. In this class consist of one teacher, one acamedician, and nine students. I starting teach after that. For the first,, student must creating email using gmail.com. After that i explain Google+, they also creating google plus profile for first time and i invite them to starting conference using Google+ Hangout. They all accept and we learn together now. Finaly i give task for students to exploring all fitures.

Web conference in webex is doesn't i give to them because they can not edited, they also can to patricipant. For replace them i using Skype in the next session. We trying together until lunch at 12.00 PM.

Post by: Harum Nugroho

Thursday, 22 January 2015

Today i have no english class. Because both of teacher can not attend the class. But ms aline leave a task to do for us. My friend send the task to me by email. The task is still about table, image and figure reading.

Because there is no class today, so i just stay at home. In case of the weather is so support to just lay in home. It’s a heavy rain today. I decide to spend my day by finish the task that ms aline gave and watching korean movie. This was my thursday going, a little bit bored since i just stay home all day long but i got so much rest too. :D

Jan 21, 2015

On Jan, 21-22 I dont come to Seamolec, because I have to go to Vacation Day with my team in my office.
Today (Jan 21, 2015), it will be my first experience to do offroad. Start from Lembang, and finish at Jayagiri. Actually, thats just short track, but condition of the road is difficult and make that feel so long. Driver must be carefull to driving. And passenger must hold on.

Sevli's fifth log - Mrs. Dina Second Class

The best way to illustrate the information that complicated within less space are using tables and figures. That’s way when it comes to writes something, many students and researcher use tables and figures. Theoretically, tables and figures used to present the data, so the writer can get more space, but many writers still repeats what the table illustrate into sentences and explain it again. That is ones of the awkwardness writer’s behavior. Despite of what should do and shouldn’t in the paper titled “effective use of tables and figures in abstracts, presentations, and papers”, there’s agreement from some institution like universities or research institutions about how to use tables and figures in abstracts, presentations, and especially papers. The institutions use this agreement so the readers able to identify the information it contain easily. Another purposes for this agreement are to avoid the boredom effect and improve enjoyment to read this kind writing. Because the papers can contain too many pages. For example when the students want to write the final assignment, they must use lines to divide rows and rows or columns and columns. To improve readable of the writing is the main idea from the agreement to use lines that way. Another agreement tell what type face should use by the writers, like the font, the space between paragraphs, where the title should place, and others agreement. Overall this agreements have the same idea, to improve readable of the writing.

Sevli's seventh log - Miss a Class

My laptop battery become worst lately, I can works without charger plug in power outlet. So, today I don’t come to the class, I choose to find replacement for laptop’s battery. I depart at eight and back home six at noon. I lost in Jakarta with busway, its contrary with my thesis. Suggestion best route for people when travelling in Indonesia’s big cities.
Back talking the class, I ask about today topic to friends that comes to the class today. They tell me, Mrs. Yanti came switch schedule with Mrs. Aline. She ask the participant to make argument and analysis about a paper about tobacco and smoke. It’s two different article in one pages separate with two columns. Then they tell me Mrs. Yanti give another paper contain article with topic “ICT in education” and “ICT in government”. She ask us to make a paragraph of resume from that article.

[Kokoy] #Day 8, Log 8 - How To Make an Argument in Academic Writing

Wednesday, January 21st, 2015. This morning we learn about "How to Make an Arguments in academic writing". Mrs. Yanti explain to us about how to make an argument and how support that argument in our academic writings especially thesis. Interprete and describe the data and also make a conclusion from there as evidence, and then we can process our data as an evidence to our argument, data can strengthen our argument. She explain to us the purpose of argumentative essay is to persuade the reader to accept and seriously consider your opinion on controversial issues. When you make an argument in your essay, you must consider your audience, like: whom are you trying reach, what do they already know about your topic, what is your relationship with your audience and how does it impact your word choice and tone. Then you must make a claim like: your opinion or position on an issue, must be supported with reasons and evidence, evidence can include quotes, facts, and data, also evidence must be explain. Then you make a reason for your claim because reason support the thesis and form argument with your evidence and then you must have a counter claim to your argument like: consider the opposite side, argues againt your claim, turn againt your argument to challenge it, and then turn back to reaffirm that argument.

After she explain to us, she give us article with data statistic and description about “ICT in Education and Government” and from that article she ask us to make a questions and summary from the information and data we get. Then she give us an article again that shows us the statistic graphs about “Tobacco use is a risk factor for six of the eight leading causes of death in the world” and “Nearly two thirds of the world’s smokers live in 10 countries” and ask us to make argument paper about from that data given on the article.

Wednesday, 21 January 2014

Today i have a class with mrs yanti. She also teach about how to explain a diagram. She said that i can not just explain what i see. I need to analyze deeper than what i see in the diagram and try to argue about what i see. Because if i can argue about that, i will get the best explanation of a diagram or table. I have 3 task today, first is to summarize paper in one paragraph, second is to make sumarize depend on the diagram, and the last one is explain a diagram with my own opinion. I choose a diagram about 10 country with highest smoker in the world. Well, it is a liitle bit sad when i see my country in a third rank. I try to give my opinion about why my country become the third rank. By the way, study with mrs yanti was so fun. I was surpised when she told that she is fans of korean boyband big bang. And she came to k pop concert too. Even i am younger than her and love to watch korean drama or reality show, i never think to attend their concert. Hahaha.. The class is over about 11.00 am, but my friend and i still stay in the class till 01.00 pm to finish our task. After that we had our lunch together in kfc near seamolec.