CHAPTER II
REVIEW OF THE RELATED LITERATURE
2.1 The nature of Writing
Wikipedia states that writing is a medium of communication that represents language though the inscription of signs and symbols. According to Tarigan (1985:5) writing is productive skills for writing on indirect communication and the nature of the character is very different from that expressed by speaking directly, therefor writing is included an ability, according to Harmer (2001:79) writing is from of communication to deliver through or to express feeling through written form. So, writing is an indirect communication to deliver through or to express feeling through writen form.
Writing is important skill in study English for all level. It has many purposes such as to improve the students vocabulary, to improve the students grammatical, etc. Writing is more difficult rather than the other language skills because it needs well knowledge and hard thinking when they are produce words, sentences and paragraphs with a good grammatical.
Jeremy (2001) says written text has a number of conventions which separate it out from speaking. Apart from differences in Grammar and Vocabulary, there are issues of letter, word, and text formation, manifested by handwriting, spelling, and layout and punctuation. It means writing more difficult than speaking. Because in writing there many part of writing that must be mastered by the students. Then, Alice (1991) state that Writing is not easy. It takes study and practice to develop this skill. For both native speakers and new learners of English, it is important to note that writing is a process, not a product.
Based on explanation above the researcher conclude that writing is kind of difficult skill to learn English. It is difficult because many steps or part that must be mastered of the students to write something such as: grammatical, content, and ideas. But writing should easy to the students if they understand what are they learn about writing.
2.1.1 The Process of Writing
John (2003) stated on his book that there are four bases in writing an effective paper: unity, support, coherence, and sentence skills.
a. Unity
To achieve unity is to have all the details in your paper related to your thesis and to your three supporting topic sentences. Each time you think of something to put into your paper, ask yourself whether it relates to your thesis and your supporting points.
b. Support
After realizing the importance of specific supporting details, all your papers should include such vivid details.
c. Coherence
All the supporting ideas and sentences in a paper must be organized so that they cohere. Key techniques for tying together the material in a paper include a clear method of organization (such as time order or emphatic order), transitions, and other connecting words.
d. Sentence Skills
Here are the examples of sentence-skills mistakes: quotation marks, capitalization, singular-plural, parallelism, sentence fragment, misspelled, tenses, apostrophe, etc.
Based on the explanation above, the researcher conclude the process of writing are: unity, support, coherence and sentence skill.
2.1.2 The Component of Writing
Writing text has some rules that must the writer know before begin to write something. If the writer know about it, their written should be a good sentence or text, the rules in writing is namely the component of writing.
According to Brown and Bailey (1984), there are five components that should be considered in writing:
(1) Content
Content means how the substance of the writing and idea expressed by the writer.
(2) Grammar
Grammar is the employment of grammatical forms and syntactic pattern.
(3) Organization
Organization means how is the structure of paragraph can be made.
(4) Vocabulary
Vocabulary is how the writer chooses appropriate and varied words in his or her writing.
(5) Mechanics
Mechanics according to Brown & Bailey (1984) is the usage of capitalization, punctuation and spelling
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