Guidance on Writing Literary Works for Students as Support for The School Literacy Movement
Community empowerment program in literacy aims to provide training and coachingin writing literary works for students. This activity is an effort to foster students'critical literacy skills, primarily through writing skills. Also, this activity is a way tobring schools and students closer to literature. The implementation method,Community Service, is carried out by providing training and mentoring on an ongoingbasis. The training is conducted for three days for students. This training is carriedout in two ways, namely in-class and outclass. In-class training is conducted toprovide students with the same understanding of writing literary works.Simultaneously, outclass training is conducted to hone students' sensitivity, criticalpower, and intuition to capture any existing problems around them to be used as amaterial in writing literary works. Likewise, with students' writing skills increasingand better, This is evidenced by the results of literary works that they make in theform of an anthology of poetry. The poems they made was varied in typography, theme,and contents. The students were enthusiastic and enthusiastic in participating in theactivity. The activities of fostering literary writing in schools can help students andschool parties better recognize literacy, especially in literary works' authorship. Onthe other hand, fostering the writing of literary works in schools can help teachersform the School Literacy Programme in their respective schools, bearing in mind isstill very important in the school environment, so there is a need for sweet activitiesto increase student competency and love in reading and writing.