l. Word Order
According to Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary “Word order is arrangement of words in a phrase, clause, or sentence.
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This error is sometimes the result from immediate communication strategy when the learner tried to express a meaning,
which their competence contained no appropriate items o rules at all. Overgeneralization and transfer may also become the result of an
immediate communication strategy. Indonesian word order and English word order is different. For example, ‘Smart you are” it should
be “You are smart.” m.
Wordiness According to Buscemi et.al., “Wordiness comes from using
more words than you need to get your message across. Sometimes students become wordy simply to provide the number of words
required by the assignment”.
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In line with Langan, he states that “Using more words than necessary to express a meaning”.
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For example: Not
: She is the best swimmer of the three Rumanians swimmers. But
: She is the best of the three Rumanians swimmers.
B. Writing
1. The Definition of Writing
Sometimes people write something. They convey their ideas through writing. Learning to write does not come naturally in the same
way as learning to speak. It involves many complex skills, knowledge and
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Merriam-Webster’s…, p. 1442.
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Santi V. Buschemi, et.al., The Basic a Rhetoric and Handbook, Boston: McGraw-Hill Companies, 2000, third edition, p. 373.
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John Langan, Sentence Skills A Workbook for Writers 7
th
Edition, Boston: McGraw-
Hill, 2003, p. 384.
concepts. Before learning to write a writer must understand the definition of writing.
In this part the writer quotes some definitions of writing. According to Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, writing is to make
letters or other symbols ideograph on a surface.
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It means that writing is an activity to arrange a group of letters or symbols, which have a meaning
on a medium. Writing is an integral part of human life. Someone almost writes
something everyday. Heshe maybe writes a lesson, a letter or story, etc, learning to write does not come naturally in the same way as learning to
speak. It involves many complex skills, knowledge and concepts. One of important aspects of learning to write is growing an awareness of self to
practice writing. Meanwhile understanding the definition of writing is a must.
In other word, Ann Brown gave the definition of writing from sociological view; it is a medium of interaction among people to make
relationship and to exchange information among each other in any distances. She said, “Writing is important in our lives and as a
communicative act that transmit information and link people together”.
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The various definition of writing according to experts above can be identified by the key words of each definition and it can be concluded in a
sentence. So the writing is a process of the mental physical act in expressing thoughts and feeling of thinking in forming letters and words
into sentences correctly to shape experiences, to communicate and to link people together on a surface.
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A. S. Hornby, Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987, p. 996.
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Ann Brown, Helping Children’s Write, New York: Paul Chapman Publishing Ltd, 1993, p.2
2. The Writing Sentence
