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2.4 Types of Writing
Lado 1961: 248 states that the ability to write a worthwhile composition is not possessed by all the speakers of a language, the ability to write requires special
talent and special training. Robinson 1975: 2, states that writing is divided into two types as
follows: 1
Guided writing Guided writing helps the students feel certain that they are doing the right
thing. They follow instruction and change or complete sentences. The students are instructed to write certain sentences into organized simple paragraph based
on the certain clues or guidelines. 2
Free writing In free writing, the students are given a composition topic, which makes it
possible to use freely what they have just practiced. Karmadevi 1998:8 states free writing is “the ability to write freely what has been taught, not the
ability to write anything at all”. We can say that what is meant by free writing here is not writing freely what we want to write, but, writing according to
what has been taught. Free here means free in expressing our ideas.
Finocchiaro 1974: 85 points out that naturally the type of writing system alphabet, picture which exists in the native language is an important factor in
determining the ease case or speed with which students learn to write. Furthermore, Lado 1961: 248 explains that writing a foreign language is
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the ability to use the language and its graphic representation productively in ordinary writing situation. More specially, he also adds that writing foreign
language is the ability to use the structures, the lexical items and their conventional representation in ordinary matter of fact writing. Nevertheless, he
also gives further explanation that the ability to write a worthwhile composition is not possessed by all the speakers of a language. The ability to write requires
special talent and special training. From both explanations above we can conclude that it does not guarantee
that a native speaker is always able to write a good composition in his native language without having a creative power of anything beautiful or of intrinsic
value for the content of a composition.
2.5 General Concept of Procedure Writing
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