communicative purposes.
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The authenticity will stimulate students to apply what they have learned and associate it with numerous purposes outside class.
Traditionally, writing has four common purposes: to inform, to persuade, to express and to entertain.
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Basically, people write to provide and share information they had. But people today are not merely doing that but also in persuading
people. This way is important to think in particular way and or to convince that the writing is reliable and factual. Writing may tend to be expressive by stating the
authors’ opinions, ideas, feelings and experiences. People also use writing to entertain, for instance, short stories, romance novels and humorous newspaper
columns.
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3. Approaches to Writing
In order to produce a masterpiece of writing, some steps are required. Dietsch mentions that there are four steps of writing process including prewriting,
drafting, revising and editingproofreading.
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Prewriting is the first stage of writing the purpose of which is to generate ideas. While drafting the process of
developing, expanding, and forming connection is required. This is the step when you can rethink, refine and develop ideas which drastically reorganize the draft.
The final steps are aimed to examine ideas, check the organization, mechanics, and language use.
Moreover, other sources explain stages of writing that may involve planning, prewriting, drafting, revising your content, revising for structure and revising for
grammar and mechanics.
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Planning is focusing on consideration of generating ideas, purposes and audiences. Prewriting is generating ideas for instance,
brainstorming, free writing, looping, clustering, and chart making. While drafting,
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Boas, op. cit., p. 27.
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Betty Mattix Dietsch, Reasoning and Writing Well: A Rethoric, Research Guide, Reader, and Handbook, New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006, fourth edition, p. 7.
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Barbara Fine Clouse, A Troubleshooting Guide for Writer: Strategies and Process, New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008, fifth edition, p. 7.
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Dietsch, op. cit., p. 11.
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Donald Pharr and Santi V. Buscemi, Writing Today: Contexts and Options for the Real Word, New York: McGraw-Hill,2005, p. 22.
