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B. Writing
1. The Nature of Writing
Coulmas distinguished at least 6 meanings of the term of writing on his book Writing Systems: An Introduction to their Linguistics Analysis which are
mentioned that writing is “1 system of recording language by means of visible or tactile marks; 2 the activity of putting such a system to use; 3 the result of
such activity, a text; 4 the particular form of such a result, a script style such as a block letter writing; 5 artistic composition; 6 a professional occupation.”
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Nunan divides two different views on the nature of writing. The first is called the product approach and the second can call the process approach.
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The product focuses on the result and the product of the act of composing writing. Teacher
have to make sure that the product obeys the convention rules, appropriate grammar, have good cohesion and coherence and also readable. The examples of
the products are essay, letter, poetry, and so on. Unlike the product approach, the process approach emphasized on the steps
of a writing product is being composed. This approach focused on how the author produces their writing product from the very first stage to the end. It means that
every single steps is being observed to develop the writing become the finest product.
2. Purposes of Writing
Angle is a word that describes the author’s purpose for writing. To produce
one to another writing appropriate approach is required. Writing poetry may different from writing essay in newspaper columns. The differences may vary: on
its purposes, conceptual processes and the products. Boas stated that the main goal of ESLEFL is in order to make students
become interactive and social, rather than individual. Moreover, processes of planning, drafting and revising writing of different genres that will serve authentic
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Florian Coulmas, Writing Systems:An Introduction to their Linguistics Analysis, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, p. 1.
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David Nunan, Designing Tasks for the Communicative Classroom, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989, p. 36.
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
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