Book Review Bagaimana Menjadi Guru Penulis

Book Information

Book Tittle : Bagaimana Menjadi Guru Penulis?

Editor : Cepi Triatna

Pages : 122 Pages

Publisher : CV Citra Praya

Year of Publish : 2007

If you are a teacher and have a hobby of writing, maybe this book can be a reference source to improve your skills.

At the beginning of the book we will be presented with the fundamental reasons why teachers don't write. It is related to motivation, ability, and opportunity.

These three things are closely related, about how teachers do not want to learn new things, and how to maintain existing abilities.

The author also explains in detail about things that often appear in everyday life conditions.

The author gives examples of myths that hinder teachers' writing activities.

It starts with the perception that writing is impossible, or wanting to write but not knowing how to write.

This perception then lives and sticks in the mindset of teachers, making them reluctant to write.

These perceptions then give birth to myths: writing must produce a very good or perfect paper, writing takes a lot of time, writing must be about something spectacular, and writing will succeed when a writer has become an expert in his field.

These myths inhibit teachers from writing or improving their writing skills. It demotivates and makes teachers lazy to compromise with writing activities.

After discussing the fundamental reasons why teachers are lazy to write, this book then explains the benefits of writing activities.

For example, it is a medium for expressing ideas, a medium for developing teachers' ability to solve problems, useful in the promotion process, and useful for material development.

Writing products produced by teachers will be a good self-investment for themselves and the community, writing will bind the knowledge they have, become part of professional accountability to their stakeholders.

Writing can also lead the writer to become a millionaire, and the last of the benefits of writing is to become famous.

After explaining and classifying the inhibiting factors and benefits of the writing process. This book then explains about scientific work.

It explains the types and characteristics of scientific papers, provides an outline for writing scientific articles, concrete examples and a detailed explanation of text structure.

In addition to scientific articles, the process of writing handouts is also well explained in this book. The process of writing a book such as the outline, the parts included in it, is explained thoroughly and in detail.

The outline of a classroom action research report is also one of the main topics in this book.

After explaining in detail about the characteristics of scientific papers, the outline, and the explanation of the sections within each of these works.

The next chapter of this book explains the procedure for writing scientific papers. Such as explaining the theme, determining the title, creating an outline, searching for facts, updating the latest data, and setting a deadline.

After explaining the procedure in writing in detail and showing examples, the author in the next section provides or discusses about us being a writer's teacher.

As explained about, write down what's on your mind, provide media to accommodate your writing, try to put yourself in a different perspective.

Try to get out of routine activities as a teacher, intersperse the writing process with various small activities, change your environment as a teacher when writing, try to discuss writing products with others.

Take an hour out of your day, access the internet, and enjoy writing.

Useful things for readers:

In this book we will be explained various kinds of basic knowledge about writing.

How to write well and regularly, about the benefits and inhibiting factors in writing activities.

This book will give us knowledge about the characteristics of each written work, make us able to identify the written work, which then leads us to create our own written work.

I highly recommend this book to high school students, college students, or teachers who have a hobby of writing.