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typed into a computer p. 88. Meanwhile, writing is a mental work of creating ideas, thinking about how to express them, and arranging them into statements
and paragraphs that will be understandable. Nunan, 2003, p. 88 Writing is important for people in every field, not just for the academics.
Paulston and Bruder 1976 state that skill in writing is a basic necessity in the academic environment, and even the nonacademic student, who has no need to
write reports and papers, will occasionally need to write letters, messages, memos, invitations, and the like pp. 204-205.
Thus, writing is important to communicate to each other because it reinforces the grammatical structures, idioms, and vocabulary. Through writing,
students have a chance to be adventurous with the language to go beyond what they have just learned to say and to take risks. When students are in a writing
process, they necessarily become very involved with a language. Further, the effort to express ideas and the constant use of eye, hand, and brain is a unique way
to reinforce learning Raimes, 1983, p. 3. According to Nunan 2003, the purposes of writing are to express and impress. People can express the ideas they
have through writing. Moreover, they can also impress readers by expressing their ideas through writing.
The researcher conducts this research in order to help the students to construct well-ordered compound sentences. One of the important things related
to writing is “correct form of the language on the sentence level” Paulston
Bruder, 1976, p. 205 or “syntax word order” Gebhard, 1990, p. 221, so the
researcher focuses on the grammatical thing in writing skills. Therefore, in this
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research, the students will be able to write good sentences by using the jumbled- word game.