Nature of Writing The Concept of Writing

The figure above shows that all of the arrows lead to the final version. It means that we can bring out the final version after passing through the three processes, namely; planning, drafting and editing. Planning which is also sometimes called as pre-writing is the stage where the writer collecting the ideas of writing through brainstorming, clustering, and the like. Meanwhile, drafting is the stage where writer puts ideas and information into paper. The last step is editing or revising. Here, the writer produces the final version. Checking grammar and spelling accuracies, punctuations, and word choices usually becomes the main task to be done at this stage. In conclusion, producing good writing needs some processes that should be followed by the writer. The process is varying and sometimes different depending on the writer. Those processes are planning, drafting, editing and revising. By following the process can help the writer writes easily, effectively and systematically.

3. The Purpose of Writing

Different people have different aims in writing. Different form of writing descriptive, argumentative, narrative and etc. also has each own goal. Some people write in order to communicate to the other such as writing email or memo; while, some people write with the goal is to entertain like writing novel or story. Generally, people write based on their need and their goal, as stated by Langan; “when you write for others, it is crucial to know both your purpose for writing and the audience who will read your work ”. 28 It means that understanding the goal and the reader is important in order to transfer our ideas properly. There are various forms in writing and each form has its own purpose. For example, exposition writing is the genre of writing that the purpose is to explain or inform the reader. Persuasive writing seeks to convince the reader of a particular position or opinion;while, the purpose of descriptive writing is to describe or picture something in words. 27 Jeremy Harmer, How to Teach Writing, London: Pearson Education Limited, 2004, p. 6. 28 Langan, op. cit, p. 14.