ANGGINI, DITA (2022) STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL IN USING COHESION AND COHERENCE ON DESCRIPTIVE ESSAY AT THE FOURTH SEMESTER OF ENGLISH STUDY PROGRAM AT UNIVERSITY OF PASIR PENGARAIAN. Sarjana thesis, Universitas Pasir Pengaraian.
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Abstract
Writing is one of the communication skills that must be mastered by students in order to convey opinions, feelings and information in written form. The purpose of this study were to know how students’ skill in writing descriptive essay and what types of cohesion and the ways to achieve coherence used on descriptive essay at fourth semester of English Study Program at University of Pasir Pengaraian. This research used quantitative research. Total sampling technique was applied of this research with the total were 36 students. In collecting the data, the researcher used a writing test with several topic choices in writing descriptive essay and determine the types of cohesion and the ways to achieve coherence in their descriptive essays. In analyzing the data, the researcher used the components in writing, namely Content, Organization, Vocabulary, Language Use, Mechanic and analyze the result of the types cohesion and the ways to achieve coherence they used based on the types of cohesion and the ways to achieve coherence. The research findings showed that the students' skill in writing descriptive essays in the fourth semester was in the fair level with the score 69,31 with content 21.01 score had the fair to poor level, organization with 14.52 score had the good to average level, vocabulary with 14 score had good to average level, language use with 16.74 score had fair to poor level and in mechanics with 3.34 score had fair to poor level and the types of cohesion used were 60,50% used reference on their descriptive essay and followed by 31,55 % conjunction, 5,51 % substitution, 1,35 % reiteration, 0,96 % collocation, and 0.09 % ellipsis. Then, in the ways to achieve coherence also used 61,42 % repeating key nouns, 31,69% used consistent pronoun, 4,42% used transition signals to link ideas and 2,45% in arranging ideas in logical order. It means students were quite capable of writing descriptive essay and they have used all of the types of cohesion and the ways to achieve coherence but they still need to be improved.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Sarjana) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Cohesion, Coherence, Descriptive Essay |
| Subjects: | Dewey decimal Classification Subject Areas > 400 Bahasa > 420 - 429 Bahasa Inggris, Anglo-Saxon > 420 English/Bahasa Inggris Dewey decimal Classification Subject Areas > 400 Bahasa > 420 - 429 Bahasa Inggris, Anglo-Saxon > 420 English/Bahasa Inggris |
| Divisions: | Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris |
| Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email info.pustakaupp@gmail.com |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Oct 2023 08:36 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Oct 2023 08:36 |
| URI: | http://repository.upp.ac.id/id/eprint/1995 |
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