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attempts to group the many and varied skills necessary for writing good prose into your main areas:
a. Grammatical skills: the ability to write correct sentences.
b. Stylistic skills: the ability to manipulate sentences and language effectively.
c. Mechanical skills: the ability to use correctly those conventions peculiar to the
written language, e.g.: punctuation, spelling. d.
Judgment skills: the ability to write in appropriate manner for a particular purpose with a particular audience in mind, together with an ability to select,
organize, and order relevant information. Considering those statements above, the writer concluded that writing was a way
to produce language that came from our thought. It was written on a paper on a computer. It was also a process that what we wrote was influenced by the
constraints of genre and had to be presented in learning activities.
2.2 General Concept of Descriptive Text
In this topic the writer would deal with the definition and function of descriptive text and the structure of descriptive text.
2.2.1 The Definition of Descriptive text
A descriptive text was a useful tool in many kinds of writing. A clear and lively description depended on close observation. We must pay attention to what
we see and hear, and to specific word choices that would make those observation vivid for our readers. A good descriptive text has unifying idea and everything
that support the idea Meyers 2005:60.
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Boardman and Frydenberg 2000:6 define that descriptive writing is a kind of writing used to describe what something looks like. In this case something
means that everything in the world. Furthermore, Oshima and Haque 1999:50 define that descriptive writing
appeal to the senses, so it tells how something looks, feels, smells, tastes and sounds. Briefly, descriptive writing is used to make something clear and vivid, so
that the readers can understand it. According to the statements above, a descriptive writing should be
concreted and detailed, thus the readers know and understand precisely what the writer was telling about. The aim of descriptive itself is to reveal character, to set
the scenes, and to establish the mood. Therefore descriptions are often used to support other kinds of discourse.
Sometime a descriptive writer is called a creative writer actually because heshe should be able to stimulate the readers’ sense in giving contribution to see,
hear, taste or smell what heshe was talking about. Hisher description about the object should be clear, concreted and detailed. If the readers are failed to imagine
or have different perception with writers about the way things looked, it meant that the writer is not writing a descriptive writing.
One important thing that should be remembered when we write such writing is that the events should be arranged in chronological order to avoid the
reader’s confusions. First, the writer should decide the topic that will be talked about specifically. Then the writer should have created some sentences as
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supporting details that refer to the main idea. Those details will absolutely help the readers to make a better understanding of them to feel the story vividly.
2.2.2 The Structure of Descriptive Text
