STUDENTS’ STRATEGIES IN REACHING UNITY AND COHERENCE IN THEIR ESSAY WRITING (A Content Analysis On The Students’ Essay at the Fourth Semester Students of TBIA IAIN Bengkulu in Academic Year 2017/2018)

Putri Anggraini, Emilia (2019) STUDENTS’ STRATEGIES IN REACHING UNITY AND COHERENCE IN THEIR ESSAY WRITING (A Content Analysis On The Students’ Essay at the Fourth Semester Students of TBIA IAIN Bengkulu in Academic Year 2017/2018). Other thesis, IAIN Bengkulu.

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Emilia Putri Anggraini. (2019). Students’ Strategies in Reaching Unity and Coherence in Their Essay Writing (A Content Analysis on the Students’ Essay at the Fourth Semester Students of TBI of IAIN Bengkulu in Academic Year 2017/2018). Advisor I: Dr. Syamsul Rizal, M.Pd, Advisor II: Detti Lismayanti, M.Hum. The students’ ability in writing skill are different, but most of them have problems in English vocabulary mastery that makes them difficult to develop their ideas; poor in grammar that makes their writing ideas are not structured very well; poor in writing roles that makes the students could not reach the goals when writing specific genre. Then, the students had problem in reaching coherence and unity in their paragraph. The aims of the research were to know about the students’ ability in reaching unity and coherence in essay writing and to investigate the strategies used in reaching unity and coherence in essay writing at the forth semester students of TBI IAIN Bengkulu in academic year 2017/2018. This research applied content analysis method with qualitative approach. The sources of data in this research were students’ writing essay at the fourth semester of TBI IAIN Bengkulu in academic year 2017/2018 that consisted of 29 students. The data were collected through writing test and cards. The result of the research showed that the first, there were only 5 students who did not write “unity paragraph” or “off-topic” essays. There were 24 students who wrote essay in “unity”. It means that the standard of students’ unity in writing essay was very good at the forth semester students of TBI IAIN Bengkulu in academic year 2017/2018. The second, All of the students (29 students) at the fourth semester students of TBI IAIN Bengkulu used various kinds of connectors in writing essay to reach coherence. Therefore, their essay coherence were very good. Most of the students could write consistence topic in their essay. The third, the students’ strategies in reaching unity were by stating thesis statement in introduction paragraph and starting paragraph with theis statement. The fourth, the students used various kinds of conjunction to tick the sentences togather, repeating key words, repeating sentence structure, and thematic consistancy in reaching coherence in their essays. Key Words: strategies, unity, coherence, essay writing.

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