Definition of Writing

Writing is one of language skill which is very important to be mastered by students in order to be good communicator because writing is a media of communication. It is very important as one media of communication that can help students to have a good socialization, to express their idea, their feeling, and their opinion so that they are able to have a good interaction with their society.

Writing is one of the four basic skills of language which has an important role in many aspects of life. Using writing we can learn lot of things from the simplest thing until a complex one. If we have ideas, desires and everything to explain, writing can be used as an instrument that makes somebody else understand what we want to explain. In short, we can say that writing pays an important role in our life.

Hammer (2004:3) states that “being able to write is a vital skill for ‘speaker’ of a foreign language as much as for everyone using their own first language”. In line with Hammer’s opinion, Ramelan (1994:11) states that “writing is very important as a part of man’s culture because it can be used to preserve thought, ideas, and also speech sound”.