STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION ON WEBLOG APPLICATION TO PUBLISH WRITING ASSIGNMENTS

Abstract

This research was aimed to explain students’ perceptions on the use of weblog to publish their writing assignment, especially text types writing. Thedesign of this research is descriptive qualitative. The researcher investigated the data by using students’ blog and questionnaire and interview. The results showed that the students strongly agree that publishing weblog make them more responsible, discipline, become wise internet user and avoid plagiarism. Weblog is an appropriate media to do assignment, since it can be given comments by the readers. They suggested that weblog can be applied to the other subjects, not only writing.  However, some of the students more interested to access some other social media that weblog since the feature of weblog is limited. In addition, by using weblog the lecturer cannot give the note directly as in paper based assignment. In conclusion, there are positive and negative perceptions on the application of blog to publish students’ writing.

Keywords: Application, weblog, publish, writing