2. Purposes of Writing
Writing in many ways has its own purposes. It can be looked by the contents and the view of the writer. There are four main purposes in writing based on the
types of writing in English language learning, which are
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: a. Informative
It is kind of informative writing. It contains of some ideas, opinions, describing events or experience, give directions or etc. as the purpose is to share
the knowledge or information which is important considerable for readers. b. Expressive or Narrative
This kind is to share the expressive writing which contains of such pleasure story from the writer. It is usually used to give some narrative story to the readers
and mostly use to amuse the readers. c. Satirize
Satirize is also a form of humor but in a serious purpose as it is used to reform something. It is a reality which is brought by the writer based on his or her view to
give knowledge about the fact surrounding the reader. It requires one or more the fact in the writing as the way the writer avoids deliberately misinterpret the
purpose of the writing. d. Persuasive
It is called persuasive writing which is purposed to persuade the readers to do something or to follow the instructions. It is mainly appear in an advertisement, in
promoting product, controversial issue, in evaluation of book, and etc.
3. Writing Process
Writing will carry a successful process if they attempt whole steps exactly. There are three steps in writing process, such as prewriting or planning
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, writing and revising
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. Those are important to make the writing better and systematic.
a. Prewriting or Planning
It is the first step in writing. Before write, the writer should have connected their brain in totally focused on what will be written. It also called warming up
activity. There are several ways in warm up, such as;
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Martha Heasley Cox, Writing: Form, Process and Purpose, California: Chandler Publishing Company, 1962, pp. 261—330.
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Fletcher Flynn and Thomas G. McGuire, Design: Rhetoric and Anthology for College English, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1982, pp. 32—34.
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Ibid., pp. 60—62.
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