produce a written product which has certain information. Brown 2000: 335 also states that a written product is product of thinking, drafting, and
revising that requires specialized skills on how to generate ideas, how to organize them coherently, how to use discourse markers and rhetorical
conventions to put them cohesively into a written text, how to revise text for clearer meaning, how to edit text for appropriate grammar, and how to
produce a final product. From the definitions above, it can be inferred that writing is a productive skill which communicates a message to others by
thinking, drafting, and revising the written products.
b. The process of Writing
Richards and Renandya 2002:316 define the process of editing as a classroom activity incorporates the four basic writing stages, those are
planning, revising, and editing and three other stages externally imposed on students by the teacher, namely responding, evaluation and post-writing.
Writing process in the classroom is highly structured, teacher often plan appropriate classroom activities that support learning of specific writing skills
at every stage. The stages are planning, drafting, revising, and editing. The planned learning experiences for students may describe as follows:
1 Planning
Planning or prewriting is an activity in the classroom that encourages students to write. It stimulates thought for getting started. In fact, it moves
students away from having to face blank page toward generating tentative ideas and gathering information for writing.
2 Drafting
The drafting stage focuses on the fluency of writing and is not preoccupied with grammatical accuracy of neatness of the draft.
3 Revising
Revising writing can be stated by making decisions about how you want to improve, looking at your writing from a different point of view, and
picking places where your writing should be clearer, more interesting, more informative and more concise to the reader. The students re-examine what
they write to see how effective they communicate their ideas to the reader. 4
Editing In this stage, the students are engaged in tidying up their texts as they
prepare the final draft for evaluation by the teachers. The stages of writing are planning, drafting, revising, and editing. Every stage of writing
influences the next stages. The first stage, that is, planning is the most influencing stage for it is the beginning of the writing.
