Open AccessStudents’ Writing Quality: Its Coherence and Cohesion
Author(s) -
Alief Noor Farida,
Mohamad Ikhwan Rosyidi
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
creatif bersama cici
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1858-0165
DOI - 10.15294/lc.v14i1.21505
Subject(s) - cohesion (chemistry) , systemic functional linguistics , thematic structure , computer science , quality (philosophy) , coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) , mathematics education , linguistics , psychology , mathematics , chemistry , physics , programming language , philosophy , statistics , organic chemistry , quantum mechanics
Students’ writing quality has become the focus of education research nowadays. A good quality writing should fulfil the requirements of coherence and cohesion. Coherence shows how the sentences in the text are arranged which usually follow certain structure, and cohesion shows how they are connected to each other. This study aims to investigate the students’ writing quality in both aspects. Using systemic functional linguistics approach, 10 students’ writing on recount text is analysed. The result of the study reveals how good the students on the fourth semester can write the text and what devices they use to establish the quality. The students can follow the generic structure of recount texts well. However, only 50% has reorientation. In addition, they employ different thematic progressions,