Writing is a great way to share ideas and feelings through words. By writing the writer can balance emotions and logic, making the text not too emotional but still rational. The writer can sort out which ones are worth to be writing and which ones should be removed.
There are a lot of definitions come from the expert about writing : According to Williams (2001:21) Writing is one of the principal modes of communication in any organization. Meanwhile According to Tillema (2012:1) Writing is one of the most important skills for educational success, but also one of the most complex skills to be mastered. It means that writing is one of complex skill that is useful for communication in any organization.
Another linguist, Kendall and Khuon (2006:37) said "Writing is all about making meaning" meanwhile according to Hyland (2004:9) "Writing is a way of sharing personal meanings".
Based on experts' statement above it is clear that writing is a toll for individuals to build his or her own views on a topic and through this view a new meaning is created.
Descriptive Text
There are many kinds of text. Text types are diverse, which depend on the purpose of the writing itself. Since this study involves vocational students, the type of text will be referred to the type of text in the 2013 English Language Curriculum for Vocational Schools. According to the 2013 English Language Curriculum, there are three types of text that must be taught to tenth grade vocational school students in the first and second semester. Those are descriptive text, narrative text and recount text.
Here, the researcher only focus on the descriptive text. There are several definition of descriptive text according to some experts. According to the tenth grade vocational students' handbook of the 2013 curriculum (revised edition 2017), Descriptive text is a text that describe a particular object like a place, thing or person. In other words, descriptive text is text that aims to provide information about how the places, things and people that will be described looks like.
Furthermore, Keith Folse, et al. (2009:135) stated that A descriptive paragraph describe how something or someone looks or feels. Â It means, descriptive text is not only used to describe the form but also describes how the writer feels to the reader.
It is clear that descriptive text is a text about the description of places, objects and people that can be conveyed by students through words. Through descriptive text, students can also attract their readers' senses, such as hearing, smelling, touching and tasting.
Picture Series
Students can construct their knowledge during learning descriptive text easily by using media. One of the media is picture series which draws a story. Picture series is the row of picture that has relationship. This medium fulfils the principles of using media issued by I Nyoman Sudana Degeng (1993; 26-27) . Media which can be used to make the students learn more easily and the teacher teaches easily is the main part of the learning process. The media must be used in integrated way in teaching and learning and not only as ice breaker of teaching and learning.
