The Importance Of Writing Skills In Writing

In English, we have known four skills that have to be mastered by the learner. Those are speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Speaking and reading are innate skills, we acquire them naturally. Meanwhile the ability to read and especially to compose a good writing is not naturally acquired skills. Both of them are usually learned or practiced in formal instructional setting or at education setting. Hadley (1993) mentions in his book that writing skills must be practiced and learned through experience. Therefore, to make a good writing, we have to practice a lot. Sometimes, we need writing instructors to help us during our practices. When working with their students, the writing instructors should take into account both strategy of learning and language skill development.

To make writing, we need to involve composing, that is the ability to tell or retell part of information in form of description or narratives, or to transform information into new form such as argumentative or expository writing. However, composing sometimes can create problems for the students, especially for students who write in a foreign or second language in academic contexts. Create a new idea could be difficult since it needs to involve reworking and transforming information, that is more complex than retelling something in form of writing. To solve this problem Bereither & Scardamalia (1987) suggest we need to put together concept as engaging in “a two–way interaction between