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teaching writing should give attention to how the writing process is. Writing needs long process from planning until editing. Teacher should conduct students
step by step. Sometimes, students also need prompter to help them when they cannot get ideas to continue their writing. Teacher as a prompter has responsibility
to give some suggestion that can make students’ idea appear. Besides, teacher should also give feedback so students can know the mistake in their writing
Moreover, in teaching writing, a teacher should play an important role as a facilitator, helping and guiding students in order just to find and plan their idea in
writing. That is supported by Brown 2001:340 who explain ed that “As a
facilitator, the teacher offers guidance in helping students to engage in the thinking process of composing but, in a spirit of respect for student opinion, must
not impose his or her own thoughts on student writing”.
D. Writing Process
Tribble in Harmer 2007: 326 explains that the writing process is more complex than others, of course, and the various stages of drafting, reviewing, re
drafting and writing, etc. are done in a recursive way: wee loop backwards and move forwards between these various stages. It is also supported by Harmer who
defines that writing process is as a kind o f process „wheel’, where writer moves
both around the circumference of the wheel and across the spokes. A writer can go back and re-plan or re-visit stages they had thought
Harmer, 2007: 326.
These statements from Tribble and Hammer implies that writing process is a complex process which need various steps from planning until writing and it
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needs revising until writer feels satisfied about his writing. In writing process we can pass the steps easily, we should look up again each step to find the mistake
and know how to revise and continue the writing. The activities involved in writing fall into categories we can term
planning, organizing, drafting, revising, and editingproofreading. Taken together, these activities are called the writing process.
1. Planning: identify the writing task and its requirements, identify the
audiences, decide what information will be needed, and account for constraints.
2. Organizing: take a stance on the topic, turn the stance into a thesis statement,
and arrange ideas to support the thesis statement. 3.
Drafting: use information in body paragraphs to support the thesis and write an effective beginning and ending.
4. Revising: make changes for meaning.
5. EditingProofing: make changes for correctness.
For getting successful writing process, writers should pay close attention to principles for designing writing techniques. There are six techniques that is
explained by Brown in his book “Teaching by Principles”, they are incorporate practices of good writers; balance process and product; account for
culturalliterary backgrounds; connect reading and writing; provide as much authentic writing as possible; and frame your techniques in terms of prewriting,
drafting, and revising stages Brown, 2001: 346-348
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Based on the explanation above, writing process is not simple. It needs various steps from planning, organizing, drafting, revising, editing until we get a
good and correct writing. Writing process is like a circle or wheel because in each step has relation and supports each others. A writer sometimes should look up
again each step which has been passed to check and find out mistake or change word and meaning of the writing. Getting a good writing, writer should have some
techniques. Writer not only just writes but also reads his writing. Writer should pose himself as a reader, so he can know whether his writing acceptable in
readers’ culture or not.
E. Descriptive Text
