Scope and Limitation of the Research

first time. Writing is a way of thinking. Writing actually creates thought, and generates your ability to think: you discover thoughts you hardly knew you had, and come to know what you know. You learn as you write. In the end, after you have rewritten and rearrange for your best rhetorical effectiveness, your words will carry your readers with you to see as you see, to believe as you believe, to understand your subject as you now understand it. 1 It is clearly stated that a writer can carry hisher reader to believe as heshe believes and see what heshe sees by the writing itself. A “writing” can change the reader’s mindset after heshe reads it. Another expert, Sherman Kent stated that, “Writing is expression, and that successful expression is dependent upon the continuity and clarity of the thought”. 2 It means, when someone wants to write something, heshe must know what heshe intend to write about based on their thought. Another definition was given by James A. W. Heffernan and John E. Lincoln who defined, “Writing is a means of communication you must consciously learn. And part of what makes it hard to learn is that written words usually have to express your meaning in your absence, have to “speak” all by themselves”. 3 From this statement, it is clearly stated that to make “a writing” it is not as simple as verbal communication. It needs to be learned first in order the writer can express what heshe really means. For many of foreign language learner, writing is considered as the most difficult skill, because in writing they have to combine the correct grammatical and also the coherent and cohesion of the paragraphs. It is in line with Jack C. Richard statement that, “Writing is the most difficult skills for second language learner to master of putting together strings of 1 Sheridan Baker, The Practical Stylist, New York: Harper Row Publishers, 1987, Sixth Edition, p.2-3. 2 Sherman Kent, Writing History, New York : Appleton Century Crofts, 1941 , Second Edition, p.56 3 James A. W. Haffernan and John E. Lincoln, Writing a College Handbook, New York: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc, 1986, Second Edition, p.3