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Any Suggestions to Avoid Slang Sentences or “Indoglish”, please?

By: Nilam W., Thailand

Good day dear friend. How are you today? May the spirit of God always with us. And what we are doing today or after will have advantages to others and full of the good things.

There was one time as Indonesian and student have some problem dealing with English writing. They finally realize at the end of study the important value of English writing.

As we are all know, that speaking English is quite big different with writing. Maybe in here, we are not talking about “content” of the writing, but mainly for grammar. Many graduated students got difficulties to write in English. Talk about thesis, thesis with native language (Indonesia) is already difficult; this could be more difficult writing in English, right?

The important of thesis in English: Thesis can easily read by everyone around the globe, not only for the people who concern about the subject but also other people with different passion. Surely thesis will not only end up in university library.

Some of English thesis writing of the student comprises Indoglish (the high level of wrongly English writing, translating English by using Indonesia grammar). Am I right to mention Indoglish? Correct me if I am wrong friend.

The funny thing is the student with ability to delivering speech or presentation in good English, but not for thesis writing. Aha :).

Does anyone can give suggestion, how to improve English academic writing skill, especially for thesis or dissertation written in English?

It would be very grateful for all comments and suggestions.

Many thanks.

Published in Kompasiana, 23 October 2012

http://bahasa.kompasiana.com/2012/10/23/any-suggestions-to-avoid-slang-sentences-or-“indoglish”-please/



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Good day dear friend. How are you today? May the spirit of God be with us always, and what we are doing today or after will have advantages to others and full of the good things.

There was a time when Indonesian students had some problems dealing with English writing. They finally realized the important value of English writing at the end of the study.

As we all know, speaking English is quite different than writing. Maybe in here, we are not talking about “content” of the writing, but mainly the grammar. Many under graduate students have difficulties to write in English. Talking about thesis, to write thesis in native language (Indonesia) is already difficult; this could be more difficult to write in English, right?

The importance of thesis in English: Thesis can be easily read by everyone around the globe, not only by the people who concern about the subject but also other people with different passion. Surely, thesis will not only end up in university library.

Some of the students' English thesis writing comprises Indoglish (the high level of wrong English writing, translating English by using Indonesian grammar). Am I right to mention Indoglish? Correct me if I am wrong friend.

The funny thing is that the student has the ability to deliver speech or presentation in good English, but not to thesis writing. Aha :).

Can anyone give suggestion on how to improve English academic writing skill, especially for thesis or dissertation?

I will be very grateful for all comments and suggestions.

Many thanks. (use formal one: Thank you very much)

Published in Kompasiana, 23 October 2012

http://bahasa.kompasiana.com/2012/10/23/any-suggestions-to-avoid-slang-sentences-or-“indoglish”-please/