Objective of the Study

Traditionally, the process of writing has been divided into four stages that can be observed. 5 The first stage of writing is prewriting. Its purpose is to capture and preserve ideas. The second is drafting, while drafting the people will transform their ideas into sentences in a semi organized manner. The purpose of drafting is to let the people ideas develop, expand, and form connection. The third stage is revision, and the last is editing. The general purpose of writing may be primarily to inform, to persuade, to express, or to entertain. The specific purpose involves responding to a certain need for writing. 6 These general purposes are combined in various ways. For example, most writing is intended to inform, but it also has a secondary persuasive element to make sure the reader that it is factual and reliable. Moreover, writing is a way of thinking; express the ideas in written form in order to create an act of communication between the writer and the reader. It is a way to create information and images in a reader’s mind. Writing is an art of impressing the thought, arguments or idea and information in the form of letters, symbols, numbers, or word on paper. Raymond stated that, “Writing is a way of remembering and a way of thinking as well. Writing is a tool for clear thinking, for sharpening our awareness of the realities around us, for solving problems and shaping arguments.‖ 7 It means, through writing people can share their ideas and write down their arguments that can used for solving problems in their life. By writing any kinds of what come into mind, people can remember it well because writing makes things permanent in the written form. Writing can improve the quality of their life. To sum up, writing has an important part in daily life. It is not a simple process as we invert our palms in a crack. It needs a sincerity effort to produce a clear, readable and good writing. Writing also demands competence in organizing and generating the ideas before begins to write. It opens the opportunities to learn about the target language closely since we try to write in target language. Thus, to 5 Ibid.p. 11 6 Ibid.p. 7 7 James. C Raymond, op.cit. p.8

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