The Understanding of Writing

e. Editing If there are some mistakes, the writer can edit it in editing step before moving to the next step. f. Proofreading This is the last step where the writer should submit his her writing without doubt because he she has already edited before. In the different point, there is Dirk Siepmann who shares his idea about steps in writing. At least there are three steps in writing, based on Dirk‟s view: planning, writing proper and editing. Here the figure 4 : Figure 2.1 The Steps in Writing 3. The Purpose of Writing There must be any purposes in writing. It is impossible if people write with no purpose, although people just write a simple writing. In Strategies for Successful Writing book, James and Andrew state that there are some purposes of writing. They are 5 : a. To Inform The most common writing purpose is to inform what people write in their writing. People often present information in their writing. 4 Dirk Siepmann, et. all, Writing in English:A Guide for Advanced Learners, Germany: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH Co. KG, 2008, p.22. 5 James A. Reinking Andrew W. Hart, Strategies for Successful Writing.New Jersey: Prentice-Hall,1986 p.4. b. To Persuade People sometimes write to make someone do or believe something by giving some reason. It is to persuade someone through their writing. c. To Express People writes almost everything includes their self-expression. Writing also provides opportunity to show their personality. d. To Entertain. Writing is also able to entertain. By reading the funny story writing, people may laugh and it can really entertain someone with this purpose.

B. Descriptive Text

1. The Understanding of Descriptive Text

Descriptive writing which is sometimes called as “showing writing” is writing that describes a particular person, place, or event. Descriptive writing uses a lot of flowery adjectives and adverbs to describe what is going on or how something appears. Descriptive writing is an art form. It is painting a word picture so that the reader “sees” exactly what the writer is decribing. Hegarty in his book entitle “Writing English in Context” said that before we start to write a descriptive text, firstly, we should remember the old saying “actions speak louder than words”. 6 It supposes you are describing real people or literary characters and you can strengthen your descriptive words with examples of things the character has done or said. For example when you describe someone as “funny”, so tell about funny act. Descriptive text is created by students based on the description of an object. So, a descriptive text is defined as a verbal picture. Dietsch defines that description is a recording of concrete details that the writers see, hear, smell, taste and touch. In the other word, it can be mentioned that human five senses have a 6 Carol Hegarty, Writing English in Context, USA: Saddleback Educational Publishing, 2000, p.21.