Identification of the Problem

through written form. According to Donough and Shaw on their book Materials and Methods in ELT : A Teacher’s Guide, they state that teacher should need, for instance, to call on kinds of communicative criteria; on the concepts of product and process; and on the role of formal language practice, to see how other skills are. Writing too has developed many insights into the nature of language and learning. 2 It means that in writing skill the teacher has to make the concept of product and process in writing activities. Writing has developed and accumulated many insights in the language and learning. It can be concluded that, writing is difficult language process because writing is more complex than other language skill. The writer must include the entire scope of information and provide the premises and content clearly so that a broad audience will be able to read and understand the message.

b. The Purpose for Writing

According to Mattix, she states that p urpose refers to writer‟s aim or reason in writing which can be stated or implied. Identifying our purpose early can help us to keep our draft on track and select organizational strategies to fit ideas. Purpose can be divided into two terms: general and specific. 3  The General Purpose Writing has four general purposes: to inform, to persuade, to express and to entertain. Those can be combined in various ways. 4 For example, most writing is intended to express the writer‟s idea about something, but it directly leads to the secondary purpose that is to entertain the reader. Therefore, the general purposes could combine in various ways.  The Specific Purpose The specific purpose may be implied or stated. The purpose is invariably implied in a theme that permeates the piece. In expository writing, the purpose is 2 Jo McDonough and Christopher Shaw, Materials and Methods in ELT : A Teacher’s Guide 2 nd Ed, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2003, p. 153. 3 Betty Mattix Dietsch, ReasoningWriting Well : A Rhetoric, Research Guide, Reader, and Handbook, New York: Mc Graw Hill. 2006, p. 7. 4 Ibid.