1. Article by Enny Irawati
Presented by Nasrun Ahmad

2. Successful writing needs a simultaneous
attention to: content, audience, purpose,
syntax, grammar, mechanics,
organization, and the writing process.

3. Related studies found that experienced
and inexperienced writers employ
different strategies.
This research reveals metacognitive
strategies employed by inexperienced
writers.

4. Based on O’Malley and Chamot (1990:137)
metacognitive strategies refer to:
 thinking about the writing process,
 planning for writing,
 monitoring the writing task, and
 evaluating the text that has been produced

5. Which metacognitive strategies do
graduate students employ in writing
term papers in English?

6. To investigate which metacognitive
strategies employed by graduate students
in writing term papers in English.

7.  Method
 Setting
 Subject
 Instrument
 Source of Data
 Data Collection

8. It is a qualitative research.

9. Place:
Advanced Linguistics class at the graduate
program of English Education major
Time:
December 2006 - Januari 2007

10. Two students with initial names:
D and W

11. Recording
(using a tape-recorder)

12. Thinking-aloud done by D and W
when they were writing the first draft of
their term papers

13. The spoken verbalizations of D and W
were recorded with a tape recorder.

14. 1. Self-monitoring Strategy
2. Self-evaluating Strategy
3. Self-management Strategy
4. Advanced Preparation
5. Advanced Organizers Strategy
6. Avoidance
7. Delayed Production

15. During the stages of prewriting,
drafting their term papers, students
employ metacognitive strategies to
monitor the process.