Final Project
vs. Final Test
Many
students in paragraph writing class prefer working a final project to a final
test. There are many reasons why they choose to make a final project, such as
extended duration to work and easier credits. One example is Lukman Hidayat, a
student in English Department in State University of Malang, said that working
a final writing project will provide the writers more time to think and to find
the mood to write something. This statement is backed up with some similar
statements from some other students in the same department. Actually, those eases in working final project
are just stereotypes. The period given to do writing final project is a kind of
demands for us to make it nearer to perfection. The harder the job, the more
time needed to work.
Even though many students would like to choose to do
final project, the fact is this kind of final assignment has its own impact to
them. An example taken is in Mr. Gunadi’s writing class 2010 whose students got
this kind of project. In case of doing final project, many students are found
stressed. Some of them look so pale because lack of sleep. Some other students
look untidy, or at least more untidy than usual. Maybe we can take a bumpy
conclusion from this situation that doing final project is much wearing up, but
is it true? Will it be different if they chose the final test? To answer those
questions, let us give some attention to discuss about this kind of final
assignment from the problems to face, the
effects given, and the solutions.
The
problems to face
As we know,
final project has more time to deal with than final test which looks like an
instant game. We can bring the final project home and do it at home. Everybody
knows that home is the coziest place for every people. That is the reason many
students like this order to do final project at home with the reason it will
drive the mood up. Despite the more time given, doing final project needs time
management because the students also have many other subjects and assignments
to deal with. Usually, students do it in the night until late time, and that is
clearly not a good habit. When you sleep late,
your body unleashes a ton of destructive hormones like cortisol, into your bloodstream. Cortisol is a stress hormone;
too much of it, and it can seriously affect your cell health. (http://www.sleepenough.com/). Besides,
students, as they are still young and full of love, may have other plans such
like dating. Those all are the impacts in positive and negative points
according to time management in working a writing final project. Thus, we need
to be stricter in time managing when we choose to do it than a final test which
maybe only requires some time to memorize the writing rules to do the tests.
As it is stated in last paragraph, an inappropriate
management in time while working on a writing final project may lead into a
stress. Actually, that is not the only way stress may come. The pressure in
working such project is a piling up kind of stress. It looks easy in the start,
but then the pressure keeps growing as the time until the deadline. In final
test, the pressure can be said the same kind, but the difference is the period.
Final test takes shorter period to do. Thus, the pressure in working final test
would only feel like a big smack rather than like lifting up a jar which keep
filled with water in working a final project. So, actually which kind of stress
is more tolerable is various depends on the personalities.
The
effects given
Look back to the
problems we have discussed above, in this part of essay we will discuss about
the effects given. As the creator, the worker, students will be the first ones
to get the impact. Working writing final project will decrease their free time.
Decreased free time means decreased time for refreshing that may lead to
another cause of stress. We can say that writing final project stores many
risk, in this case, risk of getting stress. However, working such assignment is
a kind of drill for the students. As we often hear from people, experience is
the best teacher. The more often we do the training, the more experience we
get, and the more expert we become. So as the students who are working the
final project. Much training in the shape of working this assignment will
increase their ability in writing.
More to the point, as final project is giving some
effects to the students; the teachers are also the other ones that should get
the effect of having the final project as the final assignment. The teachers
who give this assignment should examine the works of their students really
thoroughly as the responsibility for giving the pressure to their students. The
teachers must not only sit down behind the table and say “Anybody who do this
assignment will get an A mark.” The teachers must also take part as the
pressured ones to make it fair. Thus, like the students do, the teachers will
learn to recognize and to correct the common mistakes also they will memorize
the characteristics of good essays from the experiences they get from
correcting their students essays.
The other group that will get the effect is the readers
which are not least important in role. They are the objects that the essays
will be presented to. The effects the readers get would be different from the
effects the writers and the editors, or in this case the students and the
teachers, have. The effects the readers get cope with the mindset they get
after reading the essays. Then, what is the link between the readers and the
final project? The cable that connects them is the quality of the result essay.
Without underestimating final test essays, final project essays are demanded to
be perfect in addition to the extended time given. Thus, usually the final
project essays are some steps closer to perfection than the final test essays.
The information that readers get from final project essays is likely more
accurate and clear.
The solutions
Considering that
final project of writing has some troubles to face but in other case it also
has some benefits, some solutions are needed to repress those problems. Thus,
we can minimize the hard things, yet we get the benefits. The students seem to
have the biggest problems as they are the ones to do it. Actually, the problems
they face are just old schools, time and stress management. The condition that
they look messed up in class is evidence that proves they have not applied the
right time and stress management. To overcome it, those students should learn
to manage both their time and stress. Final project is not a burden, it is an
art instead. Arts need to be done in the best condition of ourselves. The
suggestion is do not be burdened by this assignment. Take some time to refresh,
but still be responsible with the tasks undone. Do the tasks little by little
in spare time or take it step by step anytime the situation allows.
The
long deadline given should be exploited. It is better to do such tasks pieces
by pieces than to push yourselves to do it in a time. Final project is not
alike as final test. In final test, students should finish their tasks in some
period of time which usually is short. In addition to that, final test only has
the short stressing period, so the stress it causes is not as big as the other
one may cause.
In
conclusion, from the problems to face, the
effects given, and the solutions, we can say that final project is a kind
of masterpiece that needs a hard work. However, the hard work worth it. The
final project will outcome the better result in value because the time given.
That’s why, final project is the best assignment to be used in writing.
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