Sari, Rima Rimba (2018) An Error Analysis of Using Discourse Markers in Writing Descriptive Paragraph at State Institute For Islamic Studies of Metro. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Metro.

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Abstract

Discourse markers are the crucial writing devices that have the function to link from one idea to others in order to achieve the coherent information in the discourse. Considering its importance, students are required to know their use. Yet, in the reality, an analysis of discourse markers in writing descriptive paragraph at state institute for Islamic studies of Metro still needs further explanation. Hence, this research focuses on analyzing the students discourse markers use in their writing descriptive paragraph.In this research, the writer used qualitative research. It aimed to analysis how the use of discourse markers in writing descriptive paragraph. To collect the data the writer used observation, documentation and interview. The primary data of this research were taken from twenty descriptive writings composed by the third semester students of TBI IAIN Metro. Furthermore, the information obtained from those processes was interpreted by displaying itin the diagram or chart.

The analysis presented here shows that the students’ discourse markers comprehensionare still needed to be improved. After analyzing this phenomenon, the errors were 10% of time discourse markers, 22% of cause or resultative discourse markers, 28% of additive discourse markers, and 40% of the opposition or contrary discourse markers. From this result, the students of TBI IAIN Metro need further comprehension in using discourse markers and the lecturer should give more elaboration about the use of discourse markers in writing descriptive performance correctly.

Keywords: Discourse Markers,descriptive writing

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