Essay Writing Tasked

Championing Students' Writing Skill through the Use of Wattpad

(I) Many students believe that writing is one of the most difficult English skills to master. Writing is obviously not easy to be mastered in a short period of time because of the grammatical knowledge and the amount of vocabulary needed in order for them to be able to write properly. (R) Many of them also acknowledge that they may be able to become proficient writer in no time if they have the dedication and determination to learn as well as a lot of practice. (G) However, the real challenge for many teachers is how to get the students to start to write and love the process of learning how to write itself. (F) This paper presentation will illustrate an innovative idea in teaching writing that can be promoted to guide students' writing skill by utilizing Wattpad. Wattpad is one of the largest online reading platforms that exist. Currently, it has about 45 millions members globally. Wattpad has also been considered as the Youtube of writing because it allows any authors to share their work with wider audiences in the world. Wattpad is an ideal tool to help students to enhance their writing skill because they can find and follow their favourite authors on Wattpad, choose and read any kind of books that interest them for free and in addition, they can write and release their own works on it as well.

Students who can find and follow their authors on Wattpad may be able to help to improve their own English writing skill. This is true because by following their favourite authors on Wattpad, they probably will be able to get most of the authors' written work on there and read it as much as they pleased, especially the one that the students like best and difficult to get hold of. Reading their favourite writers' paperback can help students to learn something interesting and useful as when someone like something, they tend to learn more from it rather than if they read something without the curiosity of knowing anything from it. Furthermore, Wattpad has literally more than a million active authors on their site which might interest them and give the students the inspiration to write themselves. So, improving writing skill is a must for all of the students and knowing as well as interacting with their favourite authors on Wattpad may give the students the motivation to improve their writing ability even more diligently.

Students who are registered on Wattpad will be able to choose and read any kind of books that interest them for free. It is true because Wattpad has more than 17000 plus books which are accessible online and it is in the public domain, so students will be able to access it for free. They don't even have to pay in order for them to join in the site and or even to read the book itself. The books come from different genre such as short story; general-fiction; romance; paranormal; teen-fiction; non-fiction; classic; adventure; horror; fantasy; humour; action; mystery/thriller and so on, therefore, students will have plenty to choose from. Moreover, by having unrestricted access to many different kinds of reading materials, students may unintentionally help themselves to improve their writing skill because by reading a lot of various reading categories, it will help them on how to construct sentences in English. All in all, having the freedom to choose any kind of book the students prefer to read may in the long term will be beneficial for themselves, especially if it is something that interest them. So, Wattpad is one of the best solutions for many students who want to explore in their reading adventure.

Students who are active on Whattpad will have the chance to release their own work on it as well. This is absolutely true as when you join in the community, you will automatically be able to publish your own writing online on Wattpad. These are some steps on how to start writing on Wattpad and how does it works. Firstly, students have to create a profile to join in the community as this is where everyone on Wattpad will be able to see each other. Secondly, as Wattpad stories are posted one chapter at a time so students don't have to rush to finish their writing. They can take their time and find more inspiration to write even better. Thirdly, students are encourage to publish their work in a regular basis. For example, they can release their work perhaps every two weeks or once a month. Fourthly, their readers will get notifications. It means that when students upload their work on Wattpad, their followers or readers will receive notification from Wattpad and therefore, they will come back and be able to view the new materials. Fifth, on Wattpad readers are usually interacting with the stories by giving comment and vote to the stories that they are reading. Sixth, students are advisable to be part of the conversation by replying to the readers queries and comment on their publish work. Seventh, students could write either on their mobile device or computer. As a result, students could write while they are on the go and not necessarily have to be in front of their computer in their study room. So, by being part and active on Wattpad will hopefully improve students' passion on writing, which eventually lead them to write themselves as well as publishing their own work and will make them writer on their own right.

In conclusion. We believe that learning writing can be easy and fun for many students if only they know how to do it the right and proper way. Wattpad could be the place for them to able able to explore, to have fun and to learn to improve their writing. Wattpad is an ideal tool to help students to enhance their writing skill because of three reasons. Firstly, students can find and follow their favourite authors on Wattpad; secondly, they can choose and read any kind of books that interest them for free and thirdly; they can write and release their own works on it as well.