Muhammad Zaenudin, , 2201408003 (2012) Cohesive Devices in Hortatory Exposition Texts Posted in Class Blog by Eleventh Grade Students of SMA Negeri 1 Temanggung. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

This is a descriptive-qualitative study. The topic of this study is Cohesive Devices in Hortatory Exposition Texts Posted in Class Blog by Eleventh Grade Students of SMA Negeri 1 Temanggung. The objectives of this study are to describe whether the hortatory exposition texts posted in class blog by eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Temanggung are written cohesively and to describe the kind of cohesive devices which is frequently used in those texts. There are grammatical and lexical cohesion. Grammatical cohesion consists of reference, substitution, ellipsis and conjunction. Lexical cohesion consists of reiteration and collocation. The data of study were fifteen hortatory exposition texts posted in class blog. The writer analyzed the data through sequence of steps. They were dividing and numbering sentences into clauses in each text, identifying and classifying the cohesive devices, putting the cohesive devices into tables based on the types, counting the number of cohesive devices in the form of percentages, and interpreting the result. The data analysis showed that all grammatical and lexical cohesion devices were applied in the hortatory exposition texts analyzed. All the fifteen hortatory exposition texts had percentages of the rightly used references more than 50% with the highest percentage 100% and the lowest percentage 80%. Reference and conjunction occurred in all texts. Substitution and ellipsis applied appropriately in texts. Reiteration showed higher percentage than collocation in terms of lexical cohesion. The frequently used cohesive devices found in the hortatory exposition texts were reference with 395 occurrences (57.08%) for grammatical cohesion and reiteration with 280 occurrences (93.96%) for lexical cohesion. Based on the analysis, the writer concludes that the hortatory exposition texts posted in class blog by eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Temanggung were cohesive grammatically and lexically. Reference was the frequently used cohesive device of grammatical cohesion and reiteration for lexical cohesion.

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