The main purpose of primary school curriculum in all aspects of teaching is to equip students with the skills that will enable them to function adequately in society, academically and socially. Writing of course, is an important part of the curriculum of elementary school, he not only gives students the ability to communicate effectively, but to experiment with the language and express ideas. DET 2002:84 States "through Writing students can reflect on the experience and ideas needed to create new knowledge, and find a relationship with old and new."
The purpose of writing now goes far beyond the students making suggestions or stories in a logical sequence or pre-1960-drilling processes. Now we come to understand that texts are socially constructed and have a real purpose in life. These goals are important now, when we teach children to write. Clearly, we must clearly define the goals for the students why they write, and that means that we ask them to write in. (DET 2002:1)
How can writers, students need to become aware of the fact that the texts are most suitable to meet the message they are sending the message and the importance of who they are trying to pass it. There is also attention to how they position their readers whether they meant to inform, persuade or entertain, as it will influence their choices in the structure of the text and the language that they use. Within the school program, each audience or context includes the specific genre Cope & Kalantiz (1993:2) genre, while we compose texts in order to obtain certain goals. It can be seen through language and how we exchange information, knowledge and social interaction. "Knapp and Watkins (1994:20). Knapp and Watkins (1994:20) describe the genre as" a useful way of categorizing the social processes that are realized through the use of language "This forms what is now a genre approach, or text-type approach, primary schools currently pursuing. Its place in the school curriculum is that it gives students a goal to write and allows the study of how the text take on different forms when they are required to do different things.
The focus of schools on different genres, each of which has its own social objectives structure and function (Campbell, 2000, p. 15). The purpose of writing during the primary school curriculum to give students the opportunity to determine what functions, structure and social goals of their writing for himself and the world in which they live. These three key elements to determine how children treat their texts to build their text and criticism of their writing text function is determined by its intended purpose (Wing, 2001, p. 62). Each goal and then to a specific genre is currently in primary schools in various genres (recounts reports, procedures, explanation, exhibitions and discussions) of their appointment and structure changes Example:
Narrated build past event or experience, his goal is to tell them what happened or has happened. Its purpose may be to inform and ...