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CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
A. Writing
Writing is the most complex skill among other language skills because in writing students need to think hard to produce some words, sentences, and
paragraph at the same time.
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Not only do students need to think hard, but they also need to spell words in right spelling and properly punctuate the sentences.
Therefore, the students have to master all aspects related to writing and its component, also do more practices if they want to be good writers.
According to Rogers, he said that writing is not language. Language is a complex system residing in people brains which allow people to produce and
interpret utterances. Writing involves making an utterance visible.
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Betty said that learning to write well will improve the thinking skills –the
ability to question, analyze, evaluate and make decision.
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As Betty said, that writing is a process discovery. When the students write they will discover their
thoughts and ideas that lie in their mind. Writing opens opportunities to learn. Learning to write well also improves
our ability in organization skills.
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The consistency of learning to write well brings us to become more efficient in organizing our writing from the draft until editing
process. The improvement of organizational skill of writing will enable us to select writing appropriately. By applying appropriate writing strategies, we can
increase thoughts, draft more quickly, and develop ideas more effectively. Good organizational in developing ideas help us in expanding our writing and avoid us
from blocking of writing.
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James. C Raymond, Writing is an Unnatural Act New York: Happer Row, Publisher, 1980.p.1
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Henry Rogers, op. cit., p.2
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Betty M Dietsch, Reasoning and Writing Well: A Rhetoric, Research Guide, Reader, and Handbook Fourth Edition New York: McGraw Hill, 2006.p. 5
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Ibid,. p.5
Traditionally, the process of writing has been divided into four stages that can be observed.
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The first stage of writing is prewriting. Its purpose is to capture and preserve ideas. The second is drafting, while drafting the people will
transform their ideas into sentences in a semi organized manner. The purpose of drafting is to let the people ideas develop, expand, and form connection. The third
stage is revision, and the last is editing. The general purpose of writing may be primarily to inform, to persuade, to
express, or to entertain. The specific purpose involves responding to a certain need for writing.
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These general purposes are combined in various ways. For example, most writing is intended to inform, but it also has a secondary persuasive
element to make sure the reader that it is factual and reliable. Moreover, writing is a way of thinking; express the ideas in written form
in order to create an act of communication between the writer and the reader. It is a way to create information and images in a reader’s mind. Writing is an art of
impressing the thought, arguments or idea and information in the form of letters, symbols, numbers, or word on paper. Raymond stated that, “Writing is a way of
remembering and a way of thinking as well. Writing is a tool for clear thinking, for sharpening our awareness of the realities around us, for solving problems and
shaping arguments.‖
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It means, through writing people can share their ideas and write down their arguments that can used for solving problems in their life. By
writing any kinds of what come into mind, people can remember it well because writing makes things permanent in the written form. Writing can improve the
quality of their life. To sum up, writing has an important part in daily life. It is not a simple
process as we invert our palms in a crack. It needs a sincerity effort to produce a clear, readable and good writing. Writing also demands competence in organizing
and generating the ideas before begins to write. It opens the opportunities to learn about the target language closely since we try to write in target language. Thus, to
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Ibid.p. 11
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Ibid.p. 7
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James. C Raymond, op.cit. p.8
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