1 Drafting
2 Structuring
3 Reviewing
4 Focusing
5 Generating idea
Figure 2.1 Stage of Writing
2.2.5 Components of Writing
Knowing component of writing is very important to make our writing good and understandable by the audience. There are five components of writing
Harmer 2004:108. 1
Organization It contains reasonable sentences that support the topic of the writing. The idea of
the students are well organized and can be understood by the reader.
Drafting
focusing
evaluating geerating idea
structuring
Reviewing
2 Content
Content refers to the sentences that flow easily and not too hard to understand although a simple writing. The reasonable sentences that are arranged into good
story here that is meant by the content. 3
Grammar Grammar is connecting with how the words are arranged into good sentences.
Good means correct in the tenses and has meaning. Some students got the problem with this. This is because some of them are still confused what verbs that
should be used in the sentence. They can not differentiate between the verbs that should be applied according to the times. Another problem is the use
of „to be‟ in English. Because of those mistakes sometimes their writing can not be understood
by others. 4
Punctuation When the students write they must think about the punctuation or spelling that is
used in writing. It will make their writing reasonable to be read. The pause is also needed when we read a text. The capital letter is also important when they write
the first word in the sentence. This ability needs careful practice. 5
Style
Style deals with the precise vocabulary usage and the use of parallel structure. Vocabulary takes important role in English. Vocabulary is the basic thing that
should be owned by the students. Without that, they can not do many kind of English task. The lack of vocabulary means the failure in the communication. In
the writing, students must have enough vocabulary to make it success.
2.2.6 Types of GenreWriting
Some of genres of writing have their ownpurposes to the reader. According to Hyland 2007:29 there are some genres of writing text. It
shows in table below:
Table 2.1 Types of Genre Writing Genre
Purpose Recount
To reconstruct past experiences by retelling events in original sequence
Procedure To show how something is done
Narrative To entertain and instruct via reflection on experience
Description To give an account of imagined or factual events
Report To present factual information, sally by classifying
things and then describing their characteristics. Explanation
To give reason for state of affairs or a judgment Exposition
To give argument for why a thesis has been proposed
2.2.7 Descriptive Text
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