CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 2.1. Definition of Competence Competence is a state or quality of being adequately or well qualification; ability (Morozan, 2012:5). Competence based on Oxford Dictionary (2008:85) is ability to do something well. Competence is a gift of God given to all human being in the world. Everyone has different abilities. Competence indicates sufficiency of knowledge and skills to enable mastering four language skills, such as: listening, speaking, reading and writing. In this case, the language skills is competence of writing. To get value of scoring competence for each student, the writer used adapted Method by John Anderson. Method of scoring for categories of Competence which require a separate score for each of a number of aspects by John Anderson, based on an oral ability scale found in Harris: 1968 in Hughes (1989;91 – 93). 2.2. Definition of Writing Writing is one of the language skills. Writing is one of the competences in language that must be learned by the students. This competence is not easy to do. Needed the studied process and exercises to Based on Oxford University press (2008:516) writing is activity of writing. According to Mawardi (2009) reveals that “writing is an intellectual activity as well as physical activity rather exhausting and mind. There’s no way we write simply use the mind alone without exertion. Conversely, it is impossible to write just rely on power without mind. That is why many people who have minds pithy, brilliant, and brilliant and still not be able to write because they do not have enough time and energy to do it. Many people who have the time and effort, but cannot write because of lack of ideas or thoughts.” According to Tarigan (1982) writing is a language skill that using for communication in direct or indirect by face to face with other people. Writing is activity that productive and expressive. In writing activity, writer must be competent to exploit graphology, language structure and vocabulary. “Writing skills didn’t come automatically, but must be by many and regulated of practice and exercises”. In modern life, more clearly that writing skills is much needed. And not wrong if we said that writing skills is a characteristic from person that educated or nation have educate. In connection with this case, Morsey (1976:122 in Tarigan) said “Writing is using for to report or announce; and influence; and purpose and that’s aim only can achieved well by people that can arrange their idea and presented with clear, clarity depend on idea, organization, using for words, and structure sentences”. Many kinds of writing activity, one of them is writing of procedure text. Writing of procedure text is very needed to learn by the students. Because many activities in our life that involved procedure. So, in this research, the students were asked to write procedure text based on the topic given. From definition above, we can conclude wring is an intellectual activity as well as physical activity rather exhausting and mind that using for communication in direct or indirect by face to face with other people.
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