Teaching Writing by Using Greeting Card for Junior High School

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The goal of this paper is to give further explanation about teaching writing through greeting cards, as an alternative teaching technique which can be used in teaching writing, especially in junior high school. Moreover, this paper also aims to be a guide to English teacher to teach writing. In this paper the writer discusses how to teach writing through greeting cards. The writer hopes this technique will improve student’s writing ability to express their  ideas. The writer suggests some steps. The first step is to prepare the material that is greeting cards to the students and informs students about the materials; some pieces of greeting cards. Then, teacher starts to gives some exercises to the students. The last step, the teachers check students’ writing and respond to their mistakes.