Argumentative Writing

Human belongs as social creatures in which cannot be separated from language. They need language to communicate with others. They use language to interact and transact with others. They need language to learn many things. They use many languages as far as they need. For example, parents use language to interact with their children. In modern era, Indonesian people tend to use more than one language in daily activity such as combine their mother tongue with lingua franca and even with foreign language such as English. English is an international language that becomes familiar in Indonesia. Therefore, English is a foreign language in Indonesia but it has many users. Most people in academic world, industry, factory, and other commercial places

It can be written by people when they already known about situation and topic that have been discussing. Generally, argumentative writing has generic structure namely introduction (explanation of the issue thesis statement), body, and conclusion (Oshima and Hague, 2006:143). It is much more becomes guidance in writing argumentative text.
Since writing is important skill for people, it should teach seriously. Teachers or lectures should pay attention more and have a great interest in their teaching. However, writing is important skill that should be mastery in learning language. It is not only teaches about how to write in order to describe something but also to give opinion about something as a change of spoken language. It should be written clearly, in good way, no ambiguity, and patiently because writing form cannot give further information as spoken language. Therefore, it has limitation in words, sentence, and

It learnt by many people in the world especially Indonesia. Indonesian people tend to be mastery in all aspects of English not only speaking but also writing. Therefore Indonesian people known as humble one than others. They do interest to interact with others even foreigners although they have difficulty in English. When they don’t have skill to speak they can use written language to utter something. They can deliver their opinion in good way by write argumentative text with its generic structure. They need skill of writing in both languages (Indonesia-English) so that they can translate their opinion in Indonesian text into English text.
Translation is the replacement of textual material in one language (SL) by equivalent textual material in another language (TL) (Catford, 1978:143). It means that translation is a media to deliver somebody’s argument from different language. It helps people to deliver their opinion smoothly and acceptable to other language; English. There are many assumptions appear regarding to translation that someone who mastery in writing his first language, he will easy to write in other language. Furthermore, the assumptions have yet proved till now. Hence, there are many difficulties in writing moreover in