Analysis of Students‟ Writing Based on Textual Meaning

Abstract

This study presents a research conducted on analysis of students‟ writing based on textual meaning. The objectives were to find the conjunctions the differences meaning of conjunction words, and the relationship in Grammatical Cohesion and Lexical Cohesion between each sentences in various genres the students use in their writing assignments. It was presented a qualitative descriptive research. The sources of data were taken from texts of forty students of sixth semester of English Department University HKBP Nommensen Pematangsiantar. Four texts were taken as a sample of the research. The data were collected by analyzing the conjunctions, and the cohesion based on Textual meaning. The text were written in Descriptive, Explanatory, Expository and Procedure which with free title. Based on the obtained information, the data were analyzed. The data analysis found out the findings indicates that were four types of text produced by the students It was found that many coordinating conjunctions, subordinatingconjunctions, and conjunctive adjunct which temporal conjunctions. But, it wasn‟t found the Grammatical Cohesion was the most dominantly than the Lexical Cohesion. The finding shows that there is significance implication in teaching and learning English especially
in writing for specific purposes in the classroom. Therefore, it is suggested that the text will
relevant if the students understand how to produce the text.