The Limitation of Problem
from small store and the collective memory of our cluture until produce writing as many as capacity of library. In addition, writing is a tool for
clear thinking, for sharpening our awereness of the realities around us, for solving problems and shaping argument and for developing
knowledge. Kirton and Millan argued that writing ability is developmentaly
dependent on proficiency in listening comprehension, speaking and reading.
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Writing will help students mastered skills completely. When they writing something, they will read some source, listening to any
opinion and sharing with another. Writing is not only combinations of letter, which relate to the sounds
made when people speak, but writing is more than production of these graphic symbols. The graphic symbols must be arranged in such away
according to certain convention to form words to form phrase, to form sentence, sentences form paragraphs, to form text or passages.
Meanwhile, Byrne define Writing as a discovery process, it involves discovering idea, how to organize them and discovering what that you
want to put ever to your reader. So a lot of what a writer does a writer doesn’t actually appear on the page.
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From the explanation above, the researcher concludes that writing as one of skills, is very complex, It is neither an easy as spontaneous
activity. Writing needs some mental efforts that must be combined and arranged. Writing needs hard working, when the students do writing.
They not only have to keep minds but also considered the ideas, which are relevant to their goal at the teaching.
b. The Purpose of Writing
When people write something they must have a purpose that they want to share in their writing. The purpose of writing based on Penny Ur,
“the purpose in writing, in principle, is the expression of ideas, the conveying of a message to the reader.”
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It can be concluded that the
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Bill Kirton and Katleen Mc. Millan, Guide to Writing at University New York: Routledge,
2007, p.4
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Dom Byrne. Teaching Writing Skill. London. Longman. 2006, p. 156
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Penny Ur, A Course in Languang Teaching: Practice and Theory, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1996p. 163