Doing Assignment Through Blog is Good for Students?

In this modern era, social media always support human activity anywhere and everywhere. One of the examples is in education. In Genre Based Writing, one of the subjects in fourth semester of English Department in Pekalongan University with the lecture Innayatul Ulya M.Pd, we always collect our assignment in Blog. We must post it to Blog and she will correct it.

Blog is one of social media which is use to post news, note, etc. Doing assignment in Blog also has positive and negative reasons. For positive reason, the first is we can reduce the use of paper. It helps us to save our forest. The second is it will avoid us to doing plagiarism. When we post our assignment in Blog, we will never doing plagiarism because it when someone use that our post is plagiarism, it can make us get punishment. The third is we can look it anytime and the file will be saved permanently. The fourth is we can insert picture there. When we post in Blog, sometimes we need picture to make it more understand for the reader.

The other positive reason is we can do it at home or anywhere and we can post it anywhere. It will be more efficient because we don’t need too much time. The last is it follows the development of technology and it has big capacity to publish there. When we post our assignment in Blog, it doesn’t make us tired, because we only type it and post it in Blog.

There are not only positive reason, but also has negative reason. The first is when we published it in Blog, we must correct in our grammatical pattern. The second is it is complicated for the newbie because they didn’t know how to make a Blog and how to post it. The last is it needs internet connection to post it. It is hard for students that he or she doesn’t have modem or Wi-fi in their house.

It can be seen that there are positive and negative reason for doing assignment using Blog. It can be good or bad, based on the students how to respond it. But I think that doing assignment using Blog has a lot of positive reason more than negative reason.