After the fifth stages are completed, the last stage of writing process is publishing. In this process, writer can publish their work so that it can be read,
understood, and enjoyed by the public.
2. Writing in Junior High Schools
a. The Curriculum of Grade VIII Junior High School
The education system in Indonesia uses standard curriculum as stated in the School Based Curriculum or SBC. Generally, the goal of the teaching and
learning process in Junior High School is that graduates are able to communicate at four literacy level: performative, functional, informational, and epistemic.
From those four of literacy levels, students are only expected to be able to communicate at the functional level. In this level, students are expected to use
language for their daily activities. The teaching of English in Junior High Schools has some purposes to
develop the students’ communicative competence in oral and written form to achieve the functional level of literacy, to gain their awareness about the nature
and importance of English to further improve the nation’s capability to compete
in the world’s global society, and, to develop the students’ understanding about the relationship between language and culture. One of the aspects of English in
Junior High Schools is the ability to understand and create various short functional texts, monologues, and essays in the form of procedure, descriptive,
recount, narrative, and report.
The teaching and learning at SMP N 5 Wates in the even semester of year 20152016 is also developed based on School-Based Curriculum. Below, the
researcher presents the Standard of Competence and Basic Competence that are required to be achieved by the students in the writing skills.
Table 1 : Standard of Competence and Basic Competencies of Writing for Grade VIII in the Even Semester
Standard of Competence Basic Competence
Writing
12. Expressing meanings through very simple functional written texts and
short essays in the forms of recount and narrative texts to interact with
the surroundings. 12.1 Expressing meanings through very
simple functional written texts accurately, fluently, and
appropriately to interact with the surroundings.
12.2 Expressing meanings and rhetorical steps in very simple short essays
using written manner accurately, fluently, and appropriately to
interact with the surroundings in the forms of recount and narrative texts.
b. Learning Cycle
