Rifqi Hazmi Mamduhan, 0203515007 (2019) THE REALIZATION OF COHERENCE IN THE NARRATIVE TEXTS OF EASTVAGANZA STORY WRITING CONTEST FOR SENIOR HIGH-SCHOOL STUDENTS. Masters thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Mamduhan, Rifqi Hazmi. 2018. The Realization of Coherence in The Narrative Texts of Eastvaganza Story Writing Contest for Senior High-School Students. Thesis. Graduate Program Universitas Negeri Semarang. Adviser I: Sri Wuli Fitriati, S.Pd., M.Pd., Ph.D. Adviser II: Dr. Djoko Sutopo, M.Si Writing is one of complex skills studied by Indonesian students. One aspect which should be fulfilled in writing is coherence. The goal of coherence is to make readers know and understand the information delivered in the text. Therefore, this present study investigates how students’ narratives achieve coherence. This study analyzes narratives written by nine students who joined a story writing contest. It is assumed that the students who joined in the writing contest had fair knowledge in writing, so the texts may achieve coherence. This study uses qualitative research in the form of discourse analysis. The focuses of the study are to investigate micro and macro level coherence, tense use, and the context of situation of the texts. This study uses the theories from Thornbury (2005), Ellis (1997), and Eggins (1994). This study is aimed to know the quality of text coherence in the students’ narrative. The findings of this study showed that constant theme patterns became the most frequent occurred in the narratives followed by zig-zag patterns and sentences which have no patterns. The sentences which have patterns will be logical in continuity. For the macro-level coherence, some key words were found in the narratives to represent the story plot and the main characters in the stories. The macro-scripts showed that the narratives mostly use the script orientation- complication-resolution in arranging the paragraphs. A lot of tense errors were found in narrative 2, 3 and 4. The findings showed that the three narratives had more tense errors than correct ones. The situational coherence showed that the field in the texts were about heroes who had done something precious in their life. The tenors of the texts were between story writers and story readers. The modes of the texts were that the texts were delivered by written media, so the texts did not have visual and aural distance between the writers and the readers. The goal of the texts is only for constructing experience. Key words: Micro-level coherence, macro-level coherence, narrative, writing contest

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