Have you been a good writer?

Have you been a good writer?

Writing is one of the important skills in English course, and at least we had got this course when we were in senior high school. We had been known that the common text in English are descriptive, recount, report, narrative, procedure and our teacher in senior high school had been informed about the definition, structure, purpose and language features that made the texts become different. But we have to aware of our ability that what we had got in senior high school still not sufficient to make a good writing paper, we still need more knowledge about writing skills to be a good writer.
In the University, especially for the newest students, they are going to get some language skill courses (listening, writing, reading, and speaking) in general communication. They are basic for us to communicate with other people in English. Especially for writing, it will make us know how to make a good writing and make us be a good writer.
When we study about writing in the university, we will face with another method of the lecturer. The lecturer will give us a lot of things that we never found when we were in senior high school. We will be forced to make the texts which are different and more challenging than before. For example: in senior high school, when we want to make descriptive text. We will make the description of the people who have been known, but now we have to make an interview and make description of the stranger people. Because of that, when we try to make the texts that we did not do when we were in senior high school, of course we will get a lot of new vocabularies. It is a very challenging task, can improve our writing skill and broke open our paradigm about the texts. The benefit of this method is the students can get an improvement score, because the students always give their best effort when they do the tasks which are felt as a new thing.
Besides, we are trained to be more sensitive with mechanical terms of writing. When we are writing, first step that we have to do is thinking. It means that we have to pay attention to the structure, idea and language that we use, make sure that the reader will not confuse with the purpose of the text.
Based on the fact and data mentioning above, what we had got all this time is not sufficient and we get more knowledge in this course. We get a lot of benefits from writing general communication course as our basic that can make us be a good writer in the future.