2. Revising
Revising is to check organization of the paragraphs and the clarity of the ideas which should be explained logically and clearly. From revising stage,
writers should get feedback from another reader. It can be gotten from teacher, students or someone who is equal to the writers. The way to get feedback from
someone who has equal information or knowledge is called peer feedback or peer review.
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c. Finalizing
1. Editing
Editing is checking process for spelling, punctuation and grammar errors. Besides, writers should check the flow of their idea. Writers can read their writing
aloud to help spot any errors and check for any sections or parts.
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More skilled writers tend to look at issues of general meaning and overall structure before
concentrating on detailed features – individual words and grammatical accuracy.
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2. Formatting and Documenting Information Sources
Along with editing, writers should do a final check the format of their writing which means visual presentation. It is called as formatting.
Documenting indicates the source of writers’ information. It is usually used for essay writing because the writers need to acknowledge the source for their
writing. Several documentation styles are APA American Psychological Association, MLA The Modern Language Association, The Chicago Manual of
Style, etc.
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3. Purposes of Writing
Writing includes the ability to organize ideas, to construct correct sentences, to use tenses and to choose appropriate words. Students are demanded to master
aspects of writing – content, structure and diction, in producing good writing.
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Ibid., p. 12.
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Ibid., p. 13.
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Jeremy Harmer, Op.cit., p. 5.
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Carol A. Binder and Susan Lopez-Nerney, Op.cit., p. 13.
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Giyatno, Op.cit., p. 18.
However, writing has purposes as a way of communicating to deliver ideas to the readers. Based on Miller, the purposes of writing are
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: 1.
To describe what a writer hopes to accomplish. 2.
To amuse the readers. 3.
To persuade the readers like in hortatory exposition While Carol A. Binder and Susan Lopez-Nerney, stated the purposes of
writing as follow
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: 1.
To inform. It means that writing can help readers to know what they do not know before they read the text. Writing gives information in many forms,
such as newspaper, articles, books, magazines, etc. 2.
To express an opinion. It means that writing can express what the writer feels or thinks and express their idea or response about something.
3. To convince. To convince is same as to persuade. Writer can convince reader
through their writing in discussing an issue. Today, there are some writers, moreover journalists, who write their writing to convince so many people in
form of internet article, newspaper, magazine and books. 4.
To argue. Besides to persuade, writing has also a purpose to argue an issue which is being talked by some people.
5. To entertain. It means that writing entertains readers from the text written.
The examples of entertaining text are short story, novel, entertainment news, etc. It gives such refreshment for mind and imaginative idea and is included
in the two kinds of text – narrative and recount text.
B. Recount Text 1.
Definition of Recount Text
Recount text recount is a piece of text that retells past events, usually in the order in which they happened.
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It tells significance event happened to the writer
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Robert Keith Miller, Motives for Writing Fifth Edition, New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006, p. 4.
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Carol A. Binder and Susan Lopez-Nerney, Op.cit., p. 7.
