Delimitation of the Problem

language and to do so with reasonable and accuracy is a major achievement. Osima and Hogue 2006:205 agree that writing is a process. They propose that a writing process is divided into four stages. The first is prewriting: choosing topic and collecting information. The second is outlining that means organizing ideas into an outline. The third is writing a rough draft, in this stage writers follow the outline and ignore the grammar, punctuation or spelling. The fourth stage is polishing or revising or editing. Writing is also one of the productive skill, it means that it involves producing language rather than receiving it. In writing, students have to develop their ability by trying to write and expressing their ideas in the paper. However, writing is also a complexity subject that many students get difficulty in it. Richard Renandya 2002:303 state that writing is the most difficult skill for second language learners. The difficulty lies not only in generating and organizing ideas but also in translating these ideas into a readable text. The skills that are involved in writing are highly complex, second language writers have to pay attention to their skill of planning and organizing as well as their skill of spelling and giving punctuation. In addition, Brown 2000:335 states that writing is a written product of thinking, drafting, and revising that require specialized skills on how to generate ideas, how to put them coherently, how to use discourse makers and rhetorical conventions and to put them cohesively into a written text, how to revise text for clearer meaning, and how to edit text for appropriate grammar. The definition above shows that writing is a productive language skill of thinking, drafting, and revising that consists of many constituent parts, content, organization, originality, style, fluency, accuracy or using appropriate rhetorical forms of discourse to communicate a message by making signs on a page.

b. Writing Process

As stated earlier, writing is a combination of process and product. Richard Renandya 2003:315 say that writing process tends to be formed in two stages, the basic stages and the external stages. The basic stages involve planning, drafting, revising, and editing. The external stages involve responding, evaluating and post-writing. In line with Richard Renandya, Harmer 2004:162 states that there are four stages in the writing process. The first stage is planning.Experienced writers plan what they are going to write. It means before starting to write they have to decide what they are going to write. The second is drafting. It is the first time a writer attempts to write. In this stage the writer trying to make assumption that will be emended later. The third is editing reflecting and revising. Reflecting and revising are often helped by other reader or editor who gives comment and makes