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This research was motivated by the assumption that kaba in the oral literary performance of Dendang Pauah can be used to reconstruct the cultural values or view of the Minangkabau life. Knowledge of the cultural values of a collective is very important, because with that knowledge we will be able to judge whether his or her views are compatible or not with the soul of development. Kaba reveals to us implicitly, how his people think. It is also through kaba, which is an oral literature, a collective perpetuating or expressing what is felt to be important to its people at some time. The purpose of this study was to describe the cultural values contained in kaba at the oral literary performance of Dendang Pauah. This study used descriptive qualitative method. The data techniques collection used in this study include interviews, recording, direct observation, and field notes.

This service activity aims to improve teacher writing skills and the ability to search for reliable information as a source of reference and create digital libraries for writing scientific articles. The method of implementing this service used training. This service partner was the teachers at SMPN 16 Padang. The instruments for evaluating this service activity were the articles written by the teachers, which were analyzed descriptively. The results of this service showed that teachers could produce relevant scientific articles that could be used for teacher promotion. Approximately 80% of teachers could master how to turn class action research reports into scientific articles. In addition, this activity could improve 100% of teachers' understanding of the procedures for writing and publishing scientific articles in accredited journals. This success was seen from the articles made by the teachers according to the template from the specified journal.

This study aims to explain the strategy of online media speech acts as a medium for providing information to the public, especially in the election process. This needs to be investigated as a form of media views in providing appropriate and appropriate opinions, especially during the election period. One of them is viewed from the editorial in the online media. This study uses a qualitative descriptive method using Brown and Levinson's theory of speech. Data from the utterances in the editorial column of Kompas online media during the 2019 election period. Based on the data found, the key is that the speech strategies used by the online media Kompas, include: a frank strategy without further ado, a frank strategy with positive politeness, and a frank strategy with negative politeness. The speaking strategy that is widely used is the strategy of speaking frankly with positive politeness. The use of frank speaking strategies with positive politeness is used because of the social distance factor between the speaker and the speech partner, which in this case is the editor of the Kompas electronic media, while the speech partner is the reader of the Kompas electronic media.

The school newspaper is a mass communication medium published and managed by the school. The main manager is OSIS who are accompanied by Indonesian Language teachers and Information and Communication Technology teachers under the supervision of the school principal. The existence of a school newspaper is very important as a place to accommodate student work. This activity produces an online school newspaper that can be accessed anywhere and from anywhere. The purpose of this training is to provide facilities and infrastructure that can be used by schools to support student literacy activities.