THE EFFECT OF USING MIND MAPPING ON THE WRITING COMPREHENSION ABILITY OF STUDENTS AT SMA
CHAPTER II
LITERATURE REVIEW AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
A. LITERATURE REVIEW
1. Writing Skills
a. Definition of Writing
Writing is a process that transforms our mind or idea into the written form. It should be organized into the coherent and cohesive paragraphs. “Coherence means the sentences must hold together, that is the movement from one sentence to the next must be logical and smooth” (Oshima and Hogue, 2006: 94). It holds together within and among the paragraphs. The sentences in a paragraph have to show the coherence of the paragraph. It means that the paragraphs are related to the previous and the next ones. The use of techniques such as transitional words, pronoun, repeated key words, and the parallel structure is called cohesion. The application of coherence and cohesion is useful to make the texts clear and easy to be understood.
Writing is a form of communication of person indirectly with another person. Writing is a productive and expressive activity. In fact, writing is a skill that more difficult other than language skills, such as listening, reading and speaking. In the process of writing, it is required to pay attention to the structure related to the elements of the writing, in order the readers can understand the message conveyed by the author. Therefore, the author should use the structure such as a word, phrase, paragraphs, and others well.
Writing must have goals
or aims. When the writers write, they generate the ideas and transform it into
a text. Then they have to be able make their reader understand about the
writing. The way of the writers communicates their writing gives big impact
about how easy or not the reader understands the writing. Knowledge of
grammar and rhetoric
such as arranging
words, phrases, sentences, and
paragraphs in such a way
that attract the
reader’s attention is ?????
