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    Writing is one of four basic skills that people should master when they study language, for example English. It is more necessary when you are in academic field. In this area, speaking and listening is not enough because it is possible that anytime you will be asked to read or write something for any purpose. The problem is that writing is a hard linguistic activity for many people. It is sometime not only about their ability in grammar and sentence structure but also in developing the ideas while they are writing. However, if there is a will, there is a way. There are some steps for us to write text in English well. First, you have to determine what kind of text you are going to write. There are many kinds of text available such as description, recount, procedure, narrative, short functional text, and etc. After that, you have to see the appropriate one. The text defends on your need. When you know what kind of text you need to make, you can study the criteria of the ...

  I took TOEFL test in UIN Antasari for 2 times. I think my last score is good or at least enough. I forget my score but the latest is around 500 and the latest is higher than the first test score. My first TOEFL test result which I took in Pare was around 400, but the test was just about written test. At the first time, I thought that we would have a good score when we got more fluency in speaking and accuracy in writing. The fact is not that simple, we have to have more vocabularies, good listening, and reading reference. When you are fluency but you only have those general vocabularies, your score may be the same as before and does not satisfy you. However, there are some ways to increase your score. First, you can take TOEFL test practices as much as possible before you take the real test. Second, you are highly recommended to look for tricks and tips about how to answer TOEFL well, and this is what I usually do. If I know that my TOEFL test is about to begin in a few days la...

A week ago, I was invited to a “buka puasa” agenda. Buka puasa is time when you are fasting and you come to your neighbor house or anyone who invites you to break your fast. The agenda is opened by reciting Yasin, which is one of Al-Quran Chapter and praying to Allah SWT. In Islam, reading Al-Quran is considered as a good deed and guaranteed by rewards from God, that’s why we put it as the first agenda before the time of breaking fast comes and we start to eat our meals and beverages. At that time, I came late to the house and the agenda looked like finished. But it also did not seem like another buka puasa . There was a guy who had just presented a report to all guests and we all knew that he was a parliament member. For a moment, I realized that he had just told people about what the government and of course he and other parliament members had developed in our village, such as roads, irrigation canals, and all the stuffs. Next, they opened the discussion. They let everyone, who ...