FALLACIOUS ARGUMENT FOR BEING ACTIVE The scholars are required to be active for a good purpose.

When they do not understand what they are learning about, they ask the lecturer to make it clear. They are also required to analyze the case and present it in the class, by doing it they can improve their knowledge. They participate and confront in discussing the case which needs the solution, with it they are expected to have the good perspective and how should appreciate another. Obviously, it is important to encourage the scholars to be more active and for what it is done. Unexpectedly, most scholars are not quite understood for what they have to be active. During the studying, some collegians are attempting to save their position from the observation of the lecturer in watching who is not active. With the thought that by asking question it is helpful to be prominent. They only hope that the lecturer will sign their name as the participant. But the worse is, they ask something that has been obvious, and even they do not know what they are asking about and not related to the topic. Other side, they cover themselves with the term that every question must be appreciated. Yet most scholars are still doing this in some presentation or in the meeting class. In the meeting class, the scholars will be faced with the assignments which present the cases that need to be solved by discovering the references, and undertaking the analysis. In finding out the references, the collegians have had the wide access such as internet. And this media is almost possible to answer whole the questions from the user. Frequently, students use the internet to find the references, but, they copy everything which they assume that is related to what they are looking for and they paste it on their document without analyzing. Then, they print out the document, and submit to the lecturer. They have been active trying something that they could do, but it is not complete and not fruitful. The last thing that is usually occurred in presentation, few people are trying to state their perspective but not with an expected way, such the idea and argument which is not authentic. Occasionally, it is done by explaining many words but having an unclear point. In some moments, they also use an informal word and impolite expression. They are willing to be prominent and wishing the lecturer considers them as the active participant in the presentation. It shows that the scholar is active, but there is no the advantage or the useful thing when they do it.

Paris Andreas Sihombing

Obviously, there are the scholars who have the erroneous perspective how to be active in class. They do not understand what the aim and the useful thing that they can get from being active. Asking the obvious thing with only the aim to be signed by the lecturer, it will not bring anything. Doing copy-paste and giving an unclear argument which done only for score, it is also useless for being active. The scholar should know for what they are active and what the real thing that they can gain from being more active. Those are not the evidences of an active scholar but those are the erroneous of the aim to be active.

Paris Andreas Sihombing