considering its potential feature for educational purposes Kabilan, 2010: 1.
Teaching writing is teaching the students how to organize and develop their ideas well by considering aspects of writing, namely content,
organization, vocabulary, language use grammar, and mechanics in order to have the reader understand the message or information intended Jacobs
et al., 1981: 2. Writing achievement is the students’ holistic writing performance
measured by the test Briggs in Rosita, 1997: 18.
In brief, this chapter has discussed several points explaining the reason and the importance of conducting the research. This chapter has also discussed
background of the problems, identification of the problems, limitation of the problem, research questions, objectives, uses, scope, and definition of terms.
II. LITERATURE REVIEW
In this chapter, several relevant theories and previous studies are reviewed in order to give similar understanding. Besides, this chapter also discusses writing,
teaching writing, aspects of writing, peer correction in writing activities, E- learning media, social networks and Facebook, Facebook utilization in writing
practice, guidelines of traditional peer correction, guidelines of Facebook closed group peer correction, advantages and disadvantages of utilizing Facebook in
writing practice, theoretical assumption, and hypotheses.
2.1. Writing
Writing is a process of communication that uses conventional graphic system to convey a message to readers Linderman, 1983: 1. It deals with the
ability to arrange the graphic system, like letter, words, and sentences of certain language being used in written communication in order that reader can understand
the message or information. In other words, writing is used for communicating one
’s idea in written form to readers. Additionally, according to Tarigan 1987: 7, writing is the language skill
that is used in the indirect communication. It implies that the students can communicate their ideas to the others through written form, like letter, message,
