3 Editing
The text have been produced has to reread in order to find whether the information stated in the text is clear or not and the language chosen ambiguous
or not. 4
Final Version It is produced from the draft that has been edited in the process of writing.
2.4 Purpose of Writing
Writing is used for a wide variety of purposes. The purpose of writing may be different in every person. People may write something in order to give an
explanation, tell an event, persuade someone, give guidelines, or just to express themselves. According to Boardman and Frydenberg 1992:1, “writing has some
common purposes; to compare two topics, to argue for a solution to a problem, to describe a project, and to report on a laboratory experiment or research”.
However, the main purpose of writing is to communicate, as stated by Finnochiaro 1974: 86, “writing has been characterized as written thinking.”
2.5 Narrative Text
The words narrative derives from the Latin word “narrare” which means to recount, and related to the objective “gnarls” that means knowing or skilled.
http:en.wikipedia.orgwikinarrativelyterary Narrative is a kind of story genre that describes a sequence of real or unreal
event. According to Anderson and Anderson 1997:7 “narrative is a piece of text which tells a story and, in doing so, entertains or informs the reader or listener”.
While Gerrot and Wignell 1994:204 explain that “narrative is the text that has purpose to amuse, entertain, and to deal with vicarious experience in different
ways”. According to the statements above, we can conclude that narrative is a
communication between the writer and the reader. When the writers tell a story, they try to convey some purposes as Meyers 2005:5 states that “narrative is one
of the most powerful ways of communication”. In telling a story, the writers have to make sure they have included the detail
of everything that happened. In doing so, every news story should answer the questions below:
a. Who was involved?
b. What happened?
c. Where did it take place?
d. When did it happen?
e. Why did it occur?
Boardman and Frydenberg, 1992:3 In line with Boardman and Frydenberg, Meyers 2005:52 states that “one of
the goals of narrative is it introduces the four Ws of a setting-who, what, where, and when within the context of the action”. Therefore, in this study I use question-
word questions as guidance when the students write their narrative text. Hopefully, it will be easier for them in writing narrative text.
2.6 Structure of Narrative Text
