THE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION OF CREATIVE WRITING IN RELATION WRITING SKILL

In this era, writing is one of the skills that should be mastered by the students, because it will be useful in the future. Writing has a purpose of entertaining and of giving the information, for example, in creative writing. This research aimed to know the students’ perception of abilities they acquired after they participated in creative writing at the university level. The method of this research is descriptive analysis. The Participants of this research are coming from students in the fourth semester of English Department in Wiralodra University who took the Poetry subject Then the study resulted in the identification of abilities the students acquired after learning creative writing, the students are more self-confidence, critical reading and gain their vocabulary, grammar and punctuation in writing.


INTRODUCTION
Writing is one of the most important abilities and needs to be mastered by every student. In writing skills, students are expected to be able to express their ideas, thoughts and feelings in written form.
Nevertheless, in reality, many students have difficulty in expressing their ideas into written form; one of them is in terms of creative writing.
Nowadays, creativity is one of the abilities that everyone must-have. Graham and Hebert (2010: 3)  According to the national writers association in the field of education (UK), creative writing can be defined as follows: Creative writing is the study of writing (including poetry, fiction, drama, and non-fiction creative) and its context through creative production and reflection on the process. By writing, one is not always writing a book, but also a performance script, poetry script, and others. Creative writing can use any form or genre of writing as an exemplary subject of study, but the production of creative writing tends not to be in the form of information but an imaginative interpretation. (Bennett, Clarke, Motion, and Naidoo, 2008 (Mundziroh et al., 2013).
Writing is a process to express ideas or ideas that are packaged and delivered in linguistic elements consisting of words, sentences, and paragraphs and in written form.  Writing skills are indeed essential to make a creative paper.
Based on the statement above, the resource person is not confident in his abilities. Though everyone has their skills, it is just that many exercises determine the quality of the writing itself. It is like someone who has a lot of creative ideas but is not written down in the same writing cannot write. Because the ability to write can be practiced. Therefore, practice in creative writing is essential to practice the writing ability itself.

Ability
More than half of the students, 52.2% felt strongly agree that creative writing can improve their grammar and punctuation skills, and 43% of them also expressed their agreement. That is because now they have become more aware of the correct use of grammar after they have taken poetry courses. Moreover, grammar in English is more complicated compared to grammar in Indonesian. The role of the lecturer is crucial in helping students identify mistakes in their writing.

"Yes, I didn't miss a lot of things, I kept saying this was wrong, so I kept getting it like that."
By knowing things that are not right in their writing, it can motivate students to improve their abilities and then improve their writing to be better. Creative writing also helps improve their understanding of the correct use of punctuation.
"so I know better, oh this is the perfect grammar or not ". genres. This is evidenced by 69.5% of participants who agreed that Creative writing activities could also influence the ability to write more formal writing such as writing essays, journals, papers, and so forth.
This data was also supported by one of the participant interviews.
"Yes, Because we learn grammar too, from grammar, we add vocab. It automatically goes to the journal too, oh yeah there are additions. " In addition to influencing the ability to write formal writing, creative writing can also help us to have many creative ideas, which can be very useful so that our writing does not look dull and makes it easy for us to convey ideas.
"So there are rich ... new inspiration also. Oh, yeah, yes, I got more innovative and creative ideas. So we can put it. More impression. "

The ability to critical reading
Based on the data we obtained from the questionnaire, 23 students we examined about creative writing.
They have different opinions, and 17 of them choose to agree that their ability when criticizing a reading or text they agree that their abilities increase after they get the opportunity to write creatively in the "Poetry" course. The percentage of students who chose to agree that they were critical when reading a literary work was 73.9%.
Besides, we conducted the questionnaire; we also conducted interviews to support the data, apart from the questionnaire data. The data we obtained from the interview took the form of a recording. From the interview data, we obtained many statements stating that many students chose to agree with their ability to criticize work or writing. At this point, we ask "if after you learn creative writing, you are critical when reading a work such as poetry or a novel and then you criticize it?" then one of the students gave a statement that "It's critical, just for me, it's rich, for me it's lacking, but for him it's perfect, so I also still need a lot to learn. This should be how critical it is not revealed but critical, it's' oh how come it's like this '." So one of the students we gave questionnaires and interviews with, most of them chose to agree because they only criticized the readings they read only silently or not disclosed. As quoted in the statement above, he mentioned that only criticize in the heart alone. But some of the students we gave interviews gave a statement that "Yeah, sometimes sometimes, it becomes a material for discussions with friends like dissecting what novels are like that, so this together like this" So it can be concluded that the ability to criticize a reading is needed, in order to obtain information about the literary work they can also develop their critical thinking skills not only in reading a text but also when they want to write a text which later before writing the text the student will think back before writing it in a book.

Vocabulary and Format
Vocabulary is essential when someone wants to write a reading or