EVALUATING THE STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY 1. What is Writing Skill? · - Nunan (2003: 88): “Writing is the mental work of inventing ideas, thinking about how to express them, and organizing them into statements and paragraphs that will be clear to a reader”. - Peha (2010: 58): “writing is the communication of content for a purpose to an audience”. · - Enre (1988: 13): writing is a process of thinking systematically, so that what is being written can be easily understood. · - Celce-Murcia (2001: 207): writing as an act of communication which takes place between the writer and the reader via the text in an interactive process. · - Rivers (1981: 294): writing is conveying information or expression of original ideas in a consecutive way in the new langu...
