9 principle of writing. Based on Richards 2003, writing is the process whereby a
person selects, develops, arranges, and expresses ideas in units of discourse p. 28. In addition, there are a lot of genres in writing. One of the genres is
descriptive text. Descriptive text is a text which tells what a person or thing looks like with the purposes of describing a particular person, place or thing. Based on
that definition, the researcher defines writing as a process of delivering the students’ ideas towards the person, place or thing that they see in written form.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
In this chapter, the researcher presents the review of theories and some researches related to the research matter. It is an attempt to synthesize one theory
to the other theories in order to draw the theoretical framework to conduct the research. Therefore, this chapter is divided into two sections: the theoretical
description and the theoretical framework.
A. Theoretical Description
In this part, the researcher presents the theories which are relevant to this research. This part is divided into three parts; they are the perception, the
educational technology, and the writing skills.
1. Perception
In this part, the researcher defines seven theories related to perception. In addition, there is a review related to perception which comes from Hodgetts,
Altman, and Valenzi 1985 as the main theory used by the researcher. Because that theory is considered as an old theory, then there are some other theories
related to perception to support the research. Hodgetts et al. 1985 state that perception is the way stimuli are selected
and grouped by a person so that they can be meaningfully interpreted p. 85. In other words, it is a person‟s view of reality. The process of perception enables
people to understand and to perceive the environment where people live.
