Planning Stages of Writing
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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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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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.