The Significance of Study

from small store and the collective memory of our cluture until produce writing as many as capacity of library. In addition, writing is a tool for clear thinking, for sharpening our awereness of the realities around us, for solving problems and shaping argument and for developing knowledge. Kirton and Millan argued that writing ability is developmentaly dependent on proficiency in listening comprehension, speaking and reading. 12 Writing will help students mastered skills completely. When they writing something, they will read some source, listening to any opinion and sharing with another. Writing is not only combinations of letter, which relate to the sounds made when people speak, but writing is more than production of these graphic symbols. The graphic symbols must be arranged in such away according to certain convention to form words to form phrase, to form sentence, sentences form paragraphs, to form text or passages. Meanwhile, Byrne define Writing as a discovery process, it involves discovering idea, how to organize them and discovering what that you want to put ever to your reader. So a lot of what a writer does a writer doesn’t actually appear on the page. 13 From the explanation above, the researcher concludes that writing as one of skills, is very complex, It is neither an easy as spontaneous activity. Writing needs some mental efforts that must be combined and arranged. Writing needs hard working, when the students do writing. They not only have to keep minds but also considered the ideas, which are relevant to their goal at the teaching. b. The Purpose of Writing When people write something they must have a purpose that they want to share in their writing. The purpose of writing based on Penny Ur, “the purpose in writing, in principle, is the expression of ideas, the conveying of a message to the reader.” 14 It can be concluded that the 12 Bill Kirton and Katleen Mc. Millan, Guide to Writing at University New York: Routledge, 2007, p.4 13 Dom Byrne. Teaching Writing Skill. London. Longman. 2006, p. 156 14 Penny Ur, A Course in Languang Teaching: Practice and Theory, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996p. 163 purpose of writing is to deliver the writer’s idea and message to the reader. The most important thing in writing is the purpose of the writer. There are four common purposes for writing are: 1 To share experience, 2 To inform, 3 To persuade, 4 To entertain 15 In addition, according to Miller, there are some purposes of writing as follows: 1 Writing to understand experience In this purpose, writer does not settle for simly recording what has happened to himher. Instead, heshe draw upon that record to examine the significance of what happened. Because it is writing about their own lives, so it uses first person. But, although they are writing about themselves, they are also writing to share their experience with readers. Writing to understand experiences thus achieve at least two goals; writers come to a better understanding of themselves, and readers come to a better understand experiences different from their own. Writing to understand experiences rely on thought and reflection more that on emotion and confession. 2 Writing to report information When writing to report information, the purpose is to educate the readers about a topic of which someone has some knowladge. Informative writing comes from published sounds. It is usually given in university course. 3 Writing to explain information When we explain, we need to analyze and classify information, examine causes and consequences, and define concept by 15 Barbara Fine Clause, A troubleshooting Guide for Writers, New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005, p.6 distingushing them from other, similar ones. Explanation is an essential skill for making sense of the world around us. 4 Writing to evaluate something Writing to evaluate requires writer to determine the nature or quality of what heshe is judging, for instance writing to judge the use of internet in educational field. Evaluation also means determining importance, benefit or worth. 5 Writng to analyze images Writing to analyze images requires the ability to discern the difference between the effective and the ineffective of an image and to explain why you have made that judgment. This writing will help the reader to why some images are memorable while the others go unnoticed. 6 Writing to analyze text Writing to analyze text is not really different from writing to analyze the images. Writing to analyze the text is aimed to analyze the certain text. 7 Writing to persuade others This writing is aimed to persuade other people to do something you want for yourself. In persuasive writing, comparison and contrast is often used to develop a topic. 8 Writing to inspire others Writing to inspire others is aimed to make the reader cheer up or move to the case of something. It is mostly about the motivation that the readers’ need. 9 Writing to amuse others This writing gives opportunities for the writers to give a pleasure for the readers. 16 16 Robert Keith Miller, Motives for Writing, New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005, p. 609