Writing Skill

Writing skills is one of the 4 English language skills in addition to listening, speaking and reading.
Writing is not simply a matter of putting words together, it is a recursive process, It is a process of revision and rewriting. Teaching writing means We create a pedagogy that helps students see writing as continuous process of Revising and rewriting as They invent, plan, Their draft text. 

Writing is not the only activities combine words. writing is a process repeated, namely process of revising and rewriting. Teaching writing means that we create a science education that helps students see that writing requires steps to find, plan and create a draft text. 

Furthermore Carderonello and Edwards (1986:5) explain in their book Raugh Draft as follows: specify that there are five components in the process of writing, namely: 
- Inventing: Namely to find and generate ideas / ideas of students, what will students write or tell, steps can find ideas in many ways such as reading, talking, brainstorming, questions, etc. mindmapping. 
- Planning: the stages of how students are trying to determine how to convey ideas. This stage students will be raised the issue, purpose, reader, text structure and tone of the text to be written. 
- Drafting: In this stage, students tried to form a material or materials into text. Draft sustainable written, from draft 1, draft 2 and draft 3 to be the final result. 
- Revising: revise including adding a new idea, another idea of eliminating some of the words or ideas that do not need or reconstruct what has been written in the draft. 
- Editing: Editing is polishing a piece of writing from various aspects such as, spelling, tenses, choice of words and others. 


In writing, there is some types of writing paragraph, which each paragraph has its charateristic that different to each other. The types of paragraph :

• Descriptive paragraph is paragraph that describes thing, person or idea.
• Narrative paragraph is paragraph that tell a story or experience within problem in sequence events.
• Recount paragraph is paragraph that tell a story or experience in sequence without problem.
• Procedure paragraph is paragraph which shown how to do something.
• Essay   is a literary composition that expresses a certain idea, claim, or concept and backs it up with supporting statements.