2. Purposes of Writing
Writing in many ways has its own purposes. It can be looked by the contents and the view of the writer. There are four main purposes in writing based on the
types of writing in English language learning, which are
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: a. Informative
It is kind of informative writing. It contains of some ideas, opinions, describing events or experience, give directions or etc. as the purpose is to share
the knowledge or information which is important considerable for readers. b. Expressive or Narrative
This kind is to share the expressive writing which contains of such pleasure story from the writer. It is usually used to give some narrative story to the readers
and mostly use to amuse the readers. c. Satirize
Satirize is also a form of humor but in a serious purpose as it is used to reform something. It is a reality which is brought by the writer based on his or her view to
give knowledge about the fact surrounding the reader. It requires one or more the fact in the writing as the way the writer avoids deliberately misinterpret the
purpose of the writing. d. Persuasive
It is called persuasive writing which is purposed to persuade the readers to do something or to follow the instructions. It is mainly appear in an advertisement, in
promoting product, controversial issue, in evaluation of book, and etc.
3. Writing Process
Writing will carry a successful process if they attempt whole steps exactly. There are three steps in writing process, such as prewriting or planning
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, writing and revising
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. Those are important to make the writing better and systematic.
a. Prewriting or Planning
It is the first step in writing. Before write, the writer should have connected their brain in totally focused on what will be written. It also called warming up
activity. There are several ways in warm up, such as;
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Martha Heasley Cox, Writing: Form, Process and Purpose, California: Chandler Publishing Company, 1962, pp. 261—330.
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Fletcher Flynn and Thomas G. McGuire, Design: Rhetoric and Anthology for College English, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1982, pp. 32—34.
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Ibid., pp. 60—62.
1. Brainstorming This way is lead us to list some ideas in a blank of paper that related to the
topic we decided before. 2. Clustering
In clustering, we visualize the ideas through the line and the circles which are connected one to another. The topic is usually put on the center of the paper.
b. Writing
The next step is writing process. After we run out our ideas while doing brainstorming or clustering, then we start to write sentences into a paragraph. Use
the ideas that we had generated in the prewriting. Here some tips while we are on our writing process:
1. Begin with a topic sentence that states the main ideas, include several sentences that support the main idea.
2. Stick the topic does not include information that does not directly support the
main idea. 3. Arrange the sentences so that the other ideas make sense.
4. Use signal words to help the reader understand how the ideas in your paragraph are connected.
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c. Revising
The last step is revising. It is important to do in order to make our writing be better. In this step, we will analyze all of our writing, start from the ideas, the
connecting word, the coherence or cohesion, the grammar used and the accuracy of our sentence.
Some steps in revising are: 1. Add new ideas to support the topic.
2. Cross out sentences that do not support the topic. 3. Change the order of the sentences.
4. Using the following checklist to revise your paragraph.
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Karen Blanchard and Christine Root, Ready to Write, New York: Pearson Education, Inc., 2003, 3
rd
Ed, p. 45.
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