The Nature of Writing
Writing is
one of four language skill; it communicates ideas by means of conversational
symbol that are traced, incites, draw or otherwise formed on the surface or
some materials. Writing gives permanence to men’s knowledge and enables them to
communicate over great distance. This is excellence of writing compared to
speaking because people may save message through writing longer than speaking.
As one of language skill in English, writing is used to express ideas. In
writing, the writer will be involved in the process of building the larger
units of ideas from the larger ones.
Writing
is a way of expressing ideas in order to
communicate with others.
By writing, a writer
can express his/her thoughts or
ideas on the
paper. Leo (2007:1) says
that writing as a
process of expressing ideas or
thoughts in words should be done at our leisure.
Galbraith,
D., van Waes, L., & Torrance, M. (2007: 1) explain the most obvious
candidate for a universal feature is the fact that writing is a visual representation
of spoken language. Whatever specific form of writing a writer is engaged in,
they will have to be able to transcribe language according to the conventions
of a particular writing system, and be able to decode visual symbols into their
corresponding meanings.
Writing
is difficult for several reasons. First, writer should be able to use proper
grammar in order to make a good writing. Reid (1993:23) states
“Writing is just another way of
practicing grammar.”
Thus, the
second difficulty in
writing is that the
writers should pay
attention to the planning and
organizing of the writing. Moreover,
Richards (2002:303) explains that
second language writers
have to pay attention to
higher level skill
of planning and organizing as
well as lower level skills of
spelling, punctuation, word
choice, and so on.
Third, it
might be difficult
to write a good
writing if writers
difficult to use a
combination of content
and proper punctuation without
leaving out any important
information. As Checkett and Feng-Checkett (2004:7) claim that to make
a good writing, a writer has to keep writing as
short and simple
as possible without leaving out any important
information, and forbidden to use
slang language or confusing
expressions, but use a
combination of content
and proper punctuation.
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