CHAPTER II
A. Prior Research
the most and least usage of the types and how the TESL post graduate
more on essay writing. The result showed that there were four types of
frequently used in the respondents essay writing while synonym was the
second highest, antonym was the sixth highest and collocation was used
hyponymy were too. Then, antonymy and collocation were not found. 3
However, there were some students that still did not understand about the
Mr. Know-All and The Outstation. This study is conducted in 2010 that
had the purposes for determining the kinds and the connections of lexical
research for collecting the data. Moreover, they found that the novel Mr.
analysis above, the writer finds that the interpretation of lexical cohesion
in the stories well formed. There were elements that were related to each
other between sentence and the relation of the sentence built the lexical
ties that make the text coherent. It was shown from the entities that are
B. Theoretical Review
1. The Concept of Writing
other directly.
defines that writing is the production of the written word that results
to.
1) Planning
2) Drafting
4) Final Draft
13Ibid,p.4
14Ibid, p.5
15Ibid.
19
audience.16
(revising).17
1) Prewriting
prewriting:
16Ibid.
17H.Douglas Brown, Teaching by principles: An Interactive Approach to
Language pedagogy, Second Edition, (London: Longman, 1998), p.348
18 Dorothy E. Zemach and Lisa A. Rumisek, Academic Writing., p. 5
20
19Karen Kuelthau Allan, et. al, Learning to Write with Purpose, (New
York: The Guilford press, 2009), p. 23
21
and so on.22
1) Descriptive
2) Narrative
and nonfiction.
3) Explanation
tense.27
4) Procedure
tense is timeless.28
5) Persuasion
get the readers to agree with it. The verbs which are
28 Ibid., p. 11
29 Gayle Feng-Checket and Lawrence Checket, The Write Start., p. 261
26
feels.
writers32:
significantly shown.
1) Characteristic
skinned girl-friend.
mouse.33
33 Ibid., p. 14
29
descriptive text34:
impression.
be an excellent text.
2) Function
a) Describing place
35Ibid.
36 Gayle Feng-Checket and Lawrence Checket, The Write Start., p. 159
37 Dorothy E. Zemach and Lisa A. Rumisek, Academic Writing., p. 26
31
b) Describing people
personality.
describing people.38
38Ibid., p. 27
32
c) Describing animal
d) Describing thing
text.
wording-sound writing):
system)
40Ibid., p. 5
35
idea.48
a) Repetition
winning ticket.55
b) Synonym
conceptual meaning.58
64 Ibid., p. 23
65Ibid.
66Raphael Salkie, Text and Discourse., p. 24
44
e) Collocation
that:
67Ibid., p. 23
45
company.70
lexical environment.
cohesion:
72Ibid., p. 33
47
cohesion
73Ibid., p. 35
48
grammar.
Therefore, the main cohesive devices which bind a text together are of two
lexical cohesive ties discussed by Hasan in kaisa are general and instantial
74Ibid., p. 6
75 Ibid.
49
Lexical Cohesion
Synonymy
Equivalence
Hyponymy
Naming
Antonymy
Semblance
Meronymy