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CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
A. Writing Skill
1. Definitions of Skill
Every people in this world have their own skill. A skill is a result of experiments and training that people can achieve it. Based on Wikipedia, ―A skill
is the learned ability to carry out a task with pre-determined results often within a given amount of time, energy, or both.‖
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Another expert, Boyarzis and Kolb satetd in their journal From Learning Styles to Learning Skills:The Executive Skills Profile
that ―a skill is a combination of ability, knowledge, and experience that anables a person to do something well.
A learning skill defines a generic heuristic that anables mastery of a specific domain.‖
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Based on the definitions above it can be concluded that skill is something that people can get it by their effort and their experiences and training. People with
high motivation in learning and training, commonly they also have a good skill.
2. Definitions of Writing
Writing is an important element in life, especially in teaching and learning process, the students and the teachers spend most of time in teaching and learning
for writing. As a human being, writing skill is also needed when someone wants to write a note to friend, letters of inquiry, and application to businesses and
schools. Some people also communicate their thought in written form, in papers, reports, and so on. As mentioned in chapter I, writing needs some language
components such as grammar, spelling, vocabulary, and punctuation. Therefore,
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Cited from http:en.m.wikipedia.orgwikiskill
on April, 17.
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Richard E. Boyarzis and David A. Kolb, From Learning Styles to Learning Skills: the Executive skills profile, Journal of Managerial Psychology, IMCB University Press, 1995 vol.
10 p. 4.
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people consider that writing is difficult skill to develop because the components are related each other.
Writing is more than a medium of communication. Writing is a way to remember and to think as well.
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Meyers said that writing is a way to communicate to others through paper or through a computer screen. Writing is a kind of talent,
but it‘s mostly a skill, it improves with practice like another skill. Writing is also an action which has a process such as discovering and organizing ideas, putting
them on paper, and reshaping and revising them.
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Therefore as mention before, people who want to increase their skill espesially in writing should do an exercise
regularly. Lyons and Kroll stated in Weigle‘s book, Assessing Writing, that writing is
an action which completes some particular purpose in a context that established for signified audience.
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Still in the same book, Sperling notes that writing is a meaning-making activity which is formed by social and cultural, and have some
purpose for individual and social such as language in general.
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Based on the definitions above, it can be concluded that writing is an important element in teaching and learning process. Writing is a way to share
unspoken idea or feeling through paper. In writing there are some language components such as grammar, vocabulary, spelling and punctuation that related
each other to make writing meaningful and the purpose of writing is achieved.
3. Definition of Writing Skill
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