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They can also make an outline about their writing content before they start writing well. They can write their outline without paying attention to the errors.
The third stage is editing. Here, they are checking the drafts they have written. After they check and edit their writing, they will start writing well based
on their own style. Meanwhile, the fourth or the last stage of the writing process is final draft. Harmer 2004:4 assumes the final draft as the finished product. It
is considered as the best writing after they pass the stage of checking and editing in this stage, they are allowed to publish their writing to readers.
All of the writing process above cannot be separated because those are elements in composing a good written text.
c. Micro Skills of Writing
Every skill has its own micro skills. Brown 2001:343 describes the micro skills for writing production as follows:
1 Produces graphemes and orthographic pattern of English.
2 Produce writing at an efficient rate of speed to suit the purpose.
3 Produce an acceptable core of words and use appropriate word order
patterns. 4
Use acceptable grammatical system e.g. tense, agreement, and pluralization, patterns, and rules.
5 Express a particular meaning in different grammatical forms.
6 Use cohesive devices in written discourse.
7 Use the rhetorical forms and conventions of written discourse.
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8 Appropriately accomplish the communication functions of written texts
according to form and purpose. 9
Convey links and connections between events and communicate such relations as main idea, supporting idea, new information, given
information, generalization, and exemplification. 10
Distinguish between literal and implied meaning when writing. 11
Correctly convey culturally specific references in the context of written text.
12 Develop and use a battery of writing strategies, such as accurately
assessing the audience’s interpretation, using prewriting devices, writing with fluency in the first drafts. Using paraphrases and synonyms, soliciting
peer and instructor, and using feedback for revising and editing.
2. Teaching Writing
a. Teaching English Writing
Teaching writing is easy, but teaching writing well is not that easy. There are several steps to teach English writing well. Harmer 2004:41
explains that there must be five steps at least in teaching writing. The very first step in this case is demonstrating. In this stage, the
teachers give the students examples of a text type that is going to be learned. The details of the text are explained, such as its purpose, its social functions,
and its grammatical features. They are given an explanation selected the differences among text type.
