1. Introduction
In writing, there are many students confused to start their writing consepts. Individually, a student only uses his own ideas without any supporting ideas from the other sources so it makes a static learning process because ideas appear from a student so it will produce a limited concept depends on a student only.
A solitude student is difficult to think an idea. It makes writing process really difficult to start especially to get a main idea. If a student is starting to write, it is difficult to expand specific ideas and it will take longer time to finish a writing process.
Solution ?
Most of students prefer to learn in group. The cooperative learning is suitable way to share an ideas among other students in a group. It will produce a dynamic learning process because it will be expanded by several ideas. Many ideas will make a shorter or faster writing process. There, will appear many consepts in writing and students only have to choose the suitable concept. This cooperative learning is a best answer in teaching writing.
How does it work in teaching writing ?
In writing, “Think-Talk-Write (TTW)” strategy is a cooperative learning mode to make teaching and learning process easier. It introduced by Huinker and Laughlin. Basically, this strategy is sharing ideas among many students in a group before starting to write. In this strategy, students really active in writing process because they will express their own ideas freely.
TTW strategy divide students into several heterogeneous group to make writing process more effective. In cooperative writing including this strategy, will improving students’s mastering concepts. To mastering concepts, this strategy needs instruments as a visualization for students to expand their ideas widely. Generally, the instrument such some pictures that can be used to exploring students’s creativity and sharing each other. Pictures as a visualization help to expanding point of ideas that can be disscussed in a group.
