Showing posts with label critical thinking. Show all posts
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Tuesday, July 30, 2013

SCIENTIFIC WRITING LERNING BASED ON DD/CT



SCIENTIFIC WRITING LEARNING BASED ON DEEP DIALOGUE/CRTITICAL THINKING
Umi Salamah
         Sponsored  by Director General of Higher Education DP2M

ABSTRACT: The problems usually found in scientific writing leaning in higher institution are to find, choose, specify, and develop the topic. In current semesters, the writer implemented deep dialogue/critical thinking (DD/CT) technique to guide the students solving those problems. The developed principles in DD/CT are, moreover, the presence of two ways communication and the best take-give principle, building equality and trust between lecturer and students, and high empathy. So, DD/CT contains democratic and ethic values to show the idea in systematic way.
The focus of analysis in CC/CT approach is concentrated on finding out knowledge and experience through deep dialogue and critical thinking.  Based on three cycles in a classroom action research, it was found: (1) DD/CT could improve enthusiasm along the scientific writing leaning process; (2) DD/CT could optimize the students’ intellectual potency to find, choose, specify, and develop the topics through good rule and format; (3) Students’ mentality, emotion, and spirituality developed along dialogue process; (4) the lecturer and students could function as good listeners, speakers, writers, and thinkers; and (5) this learning model can be implemented in daily life because of focusing on value, attitude and sportiveness. In conclusion, learning based on DD/CT can improve students’ had skill and soft skill in scientific writing, even in oral communication.

Key Words: learning, writing, scientific writing, DD/CT
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