An Analysis of Coherence in Writing Essay Written by Students at Universitas Negeri Padang
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- 10.2991/assehr.k.211129.022How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Coherence; Essay; Writing
- Abstract
In writing, the students have to consider the coherence especially in writing essay. It aims to avoid misunderstanding in reading an essay. Appropriate the coherence has an important role in writing. Based on the explanation above, this study had a goal to find out the coherence in writing essay that written by English education undergraduate students at Universitas Negeri Padang. Furthermore, source of data of this study was students’ essay that written as an mid exam in teaching and learning process. This study was an descriptive research to describe the coherence in writing essay that written by the students at Universitas Negeri Padang. The document was used to find out the the coherence in writing essay that written by at Universitas Negeri Padang. As a result of the study, the analysis related to the coherence in writing essay was identified and classified based on several indicators. To determine the coherence of writing essay, it consisted of repitition of key nouns, the use of consistent pronouns, the use of transition signals, and logical order.
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- © 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
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- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
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TY - CONF AU - Reni Septiwan AU - Muhammad Al Hafizh PY - 2021 DA - 2021/11/30 TI - An Analysis of Coherence in Writing Essay Written by Students at Universitas Negeri Padang BT - Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Languages and Arts (ICLA 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 134 EP - 141 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211129.022 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.211129.022 ID - Septiwan2021 ER -