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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
writing. The skills are correlated and cannot be separated each other.
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Furthermore, those ones are the skills that should be learned step by step. In
other words, they are the critical requirements for the students to
writing text that can be used for sharing the ideas or feeling,
and exposition text. All of genre of the text above have a role
reader can get the information from descriptive text about the
things even though they are not seen the thing directly.
Writing is one of the skills that can describe someones
of them are very important for those who will write something
subject. The aim of this subject is that the students can create
writing product from the most basic level until advanced level.
about how the way the word relates to each other so that
Table 1
Data Pre Survey of Lexical Cohesion (General)
Score of types of general category
Types of Total
found in students text
general Example
A
category AI DI RS TU ZI ZL
A
Repetition Have, give, 5 7 4 6 4 2 4 32
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friend, etc.
Popular-
Synonymy 1 1 4 - 1 2 1 10
famouse
Male/female
Antonymy - - - - - 2 - 2
Black/white
Animals-
Hyponymy 1 3 - 2 2 - 2 10
reptiles
Lampung-
Meronymy 4 - 1 8 2 4 1 20
Metro
Source: The result of pre survey was from analyzing on
lexical cohesion of the students writing descriptive
text at the sixth semester students of English study
program of Stain Jurai Siwo Metro on January 21,
2016.1
used repetition in their text. Then, only one student that did
students did not use hyponymy, and one student did not use
Table 2
Data Pre Survey of Lexical Cohesion (Instantial)
Score of types of instantial category
Types of Total
found in students text
instantial Example
A
category AI DI RS TU ZI ZL
A
As a wife and
Equivalence - - 1 - - - 1 2
mother
I like call them
Naming hello for the - - - - 1 - 1 2
male
Turtles are
kind of reptiles
Semblance - - - 1 - - - 1
and are cold
blooded
Source: The result of pre survey was from analyzing on lexical
cohesion of the students writing descriptive text at the sixth
semester students of English study program of Stain Jurai
Siwo Metro on January 21, 2016.2
C. Problem Formulations
Based on the focus of the study, the researcher formulated
2015/2016.
b. To find the types of lexical cohesion that are usually
year 2015/2016.
c. To know the reason of the students that usually use the