To Write or Not to Write?
Writing factual essays may not be easy for certain people; be it a student or even a candidate for Masters Degree unless one is a language student or scholar. Why is it so? The answer is simple; both have not been exposed to expository writing. They might be reading some articles but not sensitive enough to realize the form of the piece of writing. Facts are dry subjects, so the form they have been laid misses attention.
Currently, I am working on a writing module for MUET candidates. It will come in the form of a simple format layout for writing factual essay. Most of my students do not have this knowledge since they had not attempted answering factual essays before. Some of them never had factual essay sessions since they had been advised not to answer this kind of essay. So, the practice has proven to be risky on the part of the students' future academic writing. If they had been exposed to writing factual essays, I am sure they will not have much problem in expository writing.
In MUET, the students are supposed to write factual, expository, argumentative essays.
