Utami, Eka Yuli (2016) An Error Analysis on the Use of Discourse Marker in Argumentative Writing Text Among the Third Semester Students at the English Department of STAIN Jurai Siwo 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, the use of discourse markers in English Study Program of STAIN Jurai Siwo Metro still needs further explanation. Hence, this research focuses on analyzing the students discourse markers use in their argumentative writing.
The primary data of this research were taken from twenty argumentative writings composed by the third semester students of TBI STAIN Jurai Siwo Metro. The data were collected by observation, documentation and interview. Furthermore, the information obtained from those processes was interpreted bydisplaying it in the diagram or chart.
The analysis presented here shows that the students’ discourse markers comprehension are still needed to be improved. After analyzing this phenomenon, the errors were 10% of time discourse markers, 22% of cause orresultative discourse markers, 28% of additive discourse markers, and 40% of the opposition or contrary discourse markers. From this result, the students of TBI STAIN Jurai Siwo Metro need further comprehension in using discourse markers and the lecturer should give more elaboration about the use of discourse markers in argumentative performance correctly.
Keywords: Discourse Markers,Argumentative writing

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