Creative Writing Essay

Writing skill is so essential to be owned by students in order to be successful in the academic domain in this era. The importance of the mastery of writing skill is also growing that is in line with a rise in the global interaction and the opportunity to study abroad in recent years. The increasing popularity of standardized test, e.g. TOEFL and IELTS as a prerequisite for getting into the university is a big reason for the interest to study and master writing skill.

There are three kinds of writing, i.e. academic writing, journalistic writing and creative writing (Hakim, 2016). Creative writing is any writing that is not within daily professional, journalistic, academic and technical forms of writing (Hyland, 2002). Creative writing is a

Creative writing is any writing that is not within everyday professional, journalistic, academic and technical forms of writing (Hyland, 2002). Narrative text is an appropriate material for young EFL learners to be studied and to be mastered since the content of narrative text is easy. Narrative is a macro-genre of text connected with a story for the purpose of entertaining the readers in real stories or imaginary form (Knapp and Watkins, 2005). Narrative text material is a representation of creative writing for junior high school students. The material is taught in ninth

For example, Kusumaningrum (2015) in her study merely used Think Talk Write as a single technique to improve the students’ motivation in writing narrative text. The study applied Huinker and Laughin’s theory about Think Talk Write. However, Baroroh (2016) in her study merged Mind Mapping and peer editing to improve students’ writing skills. One of the theory that she used was Buzan’s theory about Mind Mapping technique. I found that Baroroh’s (2006) study was in line with Goodnough & Woods’ (2002) theory that declared the combination of Mind Mapping and another method provides the betterment of