Author (Penulis)

Suzana Meylita Rachmawati
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

12.1.01.08.0191

Abstract

Rachmawati, Suzana Meylita. An Analysis of Using Transitions in Writing Argumentative Essay of the English Department Students at University of Nusantara PGRI Kediri Academic Year 2015/2016, Skripsi, English Department, Teacher Training and Education Faculty, University of Nusantara PGRI Kediri, 2016. Key Words : Argumentative Essay, Transitions One of academic writing assignment is argumentative essay. A way to make a coherent paragraph is using transitions which should be clearly and demonstrated in an argumentative essay. Transitions can be words and/or phrases that connect the idea in one sentence with the idea in another sentence or show support or opposite in giving opinion. By using transitions, a paragraph or a text can be read smoothly from beginning to end. The writer’s purpose in conducting the study is to know and describe the use of transitions in student’s writing argumentative essay and the awareness of the students about using transitions. The research design is qualitative research and the type of this research is content analysis. The research was conducted at University of Nusantara PGRI Kediri. The subject of the research is the third grade students of English Department in academic year 2015/2016. There were 23 students: 3 good students, 17 average students, and 3 poor students. There are three kinds of instruments in collecting the data; they are documents, interview, and student’s journal. After collecting the data, the next step is analyzing them by using coding system, tabulation, and describing them. Based on the result of this research, it is found that almost all good students used transitions in essay correctly although there were few incorrect usages, then the average students and poor students had more corrections than good students because they put the transitions in the wrong place, chose inappropriate transitions, used wrong grammatical, and over-use transitions in the text. It is also found that all students in each category had good knowledge about the transitions, such as its definition, its types, and its function, how importance using transitions are, but sometimes they still felt difficult to use transitions. The conclusions are most of students in every category used transitions correctly even though there were some corrections, then the third grade students of English Department were conscious of transition signals, but they need more practice to apply it in the sentences in order to make their writing had better quality, easier to read and more understandable. The researcher also gives suggestions to the English teacher that should give students detail explanation about transitions and the students should be able to use transition words properly.

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PUBLISHED

2016-08-13

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

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