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correct them. And for mistake, actually the students have known about what they write but they just “slip up” and do mistakes. In this case, students are
able to correct and realize their own mistake.
B. Writing English
1. The Definition of Writing
An ability to write is something that many students have to deal. Like other skills, writing is an important part in the life of modern society.
Writing is needed by people to make communication worldwide. In class, writing ability is developed through different activities such as writing notes
during lesson, writing essay for final assignment, answering questions in examination and making summary. Coffey points out that
“Writing is a form of communication in which one meaningfully expresses message, for
example ideas, hopes, opinions and findings to other people reader”.
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Within the discussion of writing, Macdonald also stated that “The
writing process is a creative act of construction that seems to begin with nothing-a blank page-and ends with a coherent structure that expresses
feeling, emotions and attitudes, prejudices, values-the full range of human experience”.
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According to Rivers, writing refers to : “The expression of ideas in a
consecutive way, according to the graphic conventions of the language; the ultimate aim of a writer at this stage is to be able to express himself in a
polished literary form which requires the utilization of a special vocabulary and certain refinements
of structure”.
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Writing is not only a collection of sentences which have no connection between each other, but it should be an
expression of ideas or feeling in a consecutive way in the form of a connected series of sentences which are grammatically and logically.
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M.P. Coffey, Communication through Writing, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1987, p. 1
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Andrew Macdonald and Gina Macdonald, Mastering Writing Essentials, New Jersey: Prentice Hall Regents, 1996, p. 1
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Wilga M. Rivers, Teaching Foreign-Language Skills, London: The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., 1968, p. 243
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From the definitions above, it can concluded that writing is the way or the process to express or to repr
esent writer’s knowledge into textual medium by following the linguistic rules.
2. The Purpose of Writing
