The Components Of The Writing Skill

Definition of The Writing Skill According to Rivers and Temperely (1978), writing is "an art that requires consciously directed effort and deliberate choice in language" (p.262). That is to say, writing skill needs a lot of energy and concentration on the part of the writer because it is one of the productive skills. Writing skill is considered as a mean of communication that use both sings and symbols. Nunan (1989) claims that writing is not just a pen on paper. In fact, it is a highly sophisticated mental process. Therefore, writing is process in the field of language learning and teaching. It requires a great mastery of grammar and lexis, then the ability to generate and organize ideas in a readable text.

Components of The Writing Skill No doubt that writing is not easy task, because of the effort that the learners have to do to produce an effective piece of writing. They should follow certain criteria to achieve that. According to Starkey (2004), in order to produce an efficient piece of writing, the following criteria must exist: organization, coherence, clarity and word choice. Organization Earlier, we talked about some linguistic elements that connect sentences with one another to formulate coherent and comprehensive text. These elements were described by Nunan (1993) as cohesive devices, these devices have two main categories grammatical cohesion and lexical cohesion. We discussed these categories in details in the section above as well as the way that