MINI RESEARCH

“IMPROVING STUDENT WRITING IN THE

CONVERSATION OF BUSINESS”
Lecturer : Dr. M.IKHSAN, M.S &CHOMS GARY GT SIBARANI, SE, S.Pd,
M.Si, Ak, CA.

By Group 2
Member of group 2 is:
Eiga Sasqia Syam Audin (7183342021)
Indah Pusparani Zebua (7183342009)
Yoseline Nora Simangunsong (7183342018)

ACCOUNTING EDUCATION C
FACULTY OF ECONOMICS
STATE UNIVERSITY OF MEDAN
2019

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 PREFACE

Thank to the Almighty God for His bless and grace to the writer for
accomplishing the Mini Research.

The writer also wants to deliver his sincere thanks to all the people who
has given their hands to help him completing this article. It is written to complete
the final task of English Business subject. It is the research to discuss how the
people can use the english language to make a great relationship in business.

Not forget to say thank you for our lecture. For always support and give us
spirit to finished our task and our project in subject about busines english.

The writer realize that it is still imperfect but he has a high expectation that
his work may help the reader to learn about the figure of speech.

Medan, 18th May 2019

Writers

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE ............................................................................................................... 2

TABLE OF CONTENTS ........................................................................................ 3

CHAPTER I BACKGROUD OF RESEARCH ................................................... 4

CHAPTER II REVIEW LITERATURE .............................................................. 5

CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY OF RESEARCH.......................................... 7

CHAPTER IV RESULT AND DISCUSSIONS ................................................... 8

CHAPTER V CLOSING ..................................................................................... 11

A. Conclusion ................................................................................................. 11

B. Suggestion .................................................................................................. 11

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ATTACHMENTS

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 CHAPTER I

BACKGROUD OF RESEARCH

Language is very important for someine to communicate with others.

Communities need to communicate to understand each other. Therefor, languageis
essential for life. Without language, it is impossible to communicate within
society. In the other hand, languages a system of communicationenables humans
to cooperate. At the same time language is a part the culture of a community.
Humans use language as a way of signaling identity with one cultural group and
difference from others.

English is the language that makes the world go round. The world of
business does not exclude the use of English because it is conducted on a global
scale. The beginning of the 21st century is a time for global transition. According
to some experts, faster economic globalization is going hand in hand with the
growing use of English. English has become a tool for internasional
communication in transportation, commerce, banking, tourism, process of
technology, and scientific research. It is formally thought students of elementary
school, junior and senior high school,and even to university.

Here we will learn about conversations in business and use language that
is indeed very decent and polite to use in business. Talk between two or more
people in which thoughts, feelings, and ideasare expressed, questions are asked
and answered, or news and information is exchanged. We interview some people
and we can know their ability in english especially of business.

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 CHAPTER II

REVIEW LITERATURE

First, in terms of rationale for this study, a basic tenet of adult learning is
that interaction of some sort is needed, either with peers, the materials, the
professor, or the learning environment itself. In the English learning, writing is
one of thelanguage skills in which thelearners should master. In this part, here is a
discussion on the nature of writing,writinga foreign language, English in
Vocational High School, writing inVocational High School, and teacher’s roles in
teaching writing. Student knowledge sharing and conversation theory interactions
were coded from asynchronous discussion forums to measure the effect of
learning-oriented utterances on academic performance

Writing is one of language skills which have to be mastered by

thelanguagelearners. In the end of the lesson, the learners are required to produce
thewritten product. Describes written products as “the result ofthinking, drafting,
and revising procedures that require specialized skills, skillsthat not every speaker
develops naturally.”That statement shows that writing isnot a simple and instant
process.Therefore, to be able to write something good,students must do a lot of
practices. It is done to get them used to write anything inthewellordered steps.
There are six steps of creating written work. There aredrafting, structuring,
reviewing, focusing, generating ideas and evaluation.

The Process of Writing is not merely instant process. It includes some

process to create awriting product. The figureshows that there are some directions
in the process of writing. The final process in this final version of writing product.

After we have spent some time thingking about our topic and doing the
necessary prewriting, we are ready for the next step in the writing process. When
we write the first draft of our conversation, use the ideas we generated from
prewriting as a guide. As you write, remember to:

1. Begin with a topic sentence that states the main idea

2. Include several sentences that states the main idea

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3. Stick to the topic
4. Arrange the sentences of your conversation so that the order of ideas makes
sense.

In this mini research will discuss more about conversations between two
or more people and discuss business. Other researchers, namely Baker, Jensen,
and Kolb (2002), leveraged knowledge sharing and conversation theory in
experiential learning, suggesting a shared meaning can be obtained by students
through the “interplay of tacit and explicit dimensions of knowledge” (p. 4). In
their extension to experiential learning theory, they claimed tacit knowledge and
deep understanding can be effectively learned through conversational dialogue :
“we must both hear and listen” (Baker et al., p. 5). In experiential learning, the
conversational space is opened to the extent that students develop the ability to
perform both activities (speaking and listening interactions),using the tension
between epistemological discourse and ontological recourse to drive the dialogue
forward (Baker et al.).

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 CHAPTER III

METHODOLOGY OF RESEARCH

The method we use in conducting this mini research is the method of

business conversation writing. We ask some people to write a conversation about
business. We will assess the ability of some of these people to write business
conversations as well as what weaknesses some people have about business
English.
In this study I review the education writing literature to identify best
practices and best conversation for student interaction in writing courses and
techniques to write the great conversation.

We asked 5 people to do this research and they were class B accounting

education students. We asked them to write business conversations. Nothing rule
and just write based on their ability.

At the first we gave instructions before they wrote down the

conversation. After that we give them the freedom to make business conversations
according to what they know. And finally we tell them some important things in
writing business conversations and give some explanations about business
English.

We did this mini research on

Day : Friday
Date : 17th May 2019
Place : Faculty Of Economics

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 CHAPTER IV

RESULT AND DISCUSSIONS

From this mini research we find and get the results of research and put it
in an article. We collect all the writing from the students and do research from the
conversations they write.

Results of the research:

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 Those picture show us each ability of the student or people of english
business especially conversation. From all we know and based on the result of
research we can make a conclusion and decision. We can know how the ability of
people in english business. There is the great ability and also week in the english
business.

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 CHAPTER V

CLOSING

A. Conclusion
We found that people's ability to write conversations in business is still
not very good or can said to be enough. They still use some commonly used
words in English. Some people also write conversations in the wrong grammer
so there are some sentences that are not connected and confusing to
understood.
Every human has different ability and that is not the mistakes of them. In
this country so important to use the english espesially in business. We need to
fix our english in business in order to have a great english and have a great
career in the future.

B. Suggestion
Actually, we should use english language in our daily lives to practice
our abilities and gain a lot of knowladge in english vocabulary. We can have a
good conversation and write the conversation in accordance with the rules of
the existing english.

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