AN ANALYSIS ON COHESIVE DEVICES FOUND IN STUDENTS’ ENGLISH ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY AT ARTHA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY KUPANG

RAJO, Ekarista (2021) AN ANALYSIS ON COHESIVE DEVICES FOUND IN STUDENTS’ ENGLISH ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY AT ARTHA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY KUPANG. Undergraduate thesis, Artha Wacana Christian University.

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Abstract

This research aimed to find out the types and dominant use of cohesive devices in students’ English argumentative essay writing. This studywas designed as qualitative study. The subject of this research was taken from students’ argumentative essays at ArthaWacana Christian University Kupang. There were 10 essays in writing course. The instrument of this research used documentary analysis and the datawere collected through the document of students’ argumentative writings analyzed using the theory of cohesion by Halliday and Hasan (1976). The analysis was concerned with grammatical cohesion(reference, substitution, ellipsis,conjunction), and lexical cohesion (reiteration and collocation).The results of this study show that the 10 argumentative essays of students produced thefive types of cohesive devices. There were reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunction and lexical cohesion. Among those five types, conjunction most prominently with (44,9%), followed by the reference (37%), lexical cohesion (16%), while substitution (1,18%) and ellipsis (0,79%). Therefore, the researcher concluded that in students' argumentative essay the students still overused and misplaced of certain cohesive device namely conjunction, references and repetition.

Item Type: Thesis (Undergraduate)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Cohesion, Types of cohesive devices, writing, argumentative essay
Subjects: L Education > L Education (General)
Divisions: Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris
Depositing User: Mr Admin UKAW
Date Deposited: 15 Jul 2022 01:49
Last Modified: 15 Jul 2022 01:49
URI: http://repo-ukaw.superspace.id/id/eprint/571

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