Seseray, Genade Moza (2021) The generic structure of expository essays written by EFL students: a case study in writing C class. Undergraduate thesis, Widya Mandala Surabaya Catholic University.
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The background of this study is EFL students may find it difficult to accustom to the usage of English language, acquiring language skills (listening, reading, speaking, and writing) in order to use English effectively, and more importantly, how the practices in acquiring writing are not easy. Unlike speaking, writing requires the writer to deliver his or her idea in such a way that the idea is fully delivered and at the same time interesting for the reader. In organizing the idea, the writer should know the structure so the readers can follow it easily. Therefore, this study was conducted to analyze how the generic structure of expository essay is reflected in EFL students’ essays in Writing C class.The design of the study is descriptive content analysis. The researcher collected 20 essays, 10 pre-course essays and 10 mid-course essays Writing C. The data collected were analyzed based on Gerot and Wignell’s (1995) generic structure of expository essay. The study was conducted to analyze generic structure of expository essays written by EFL students from batch 2019 who have taken Writing C course (Explanation and Expository Essays) where they have learned about expository writing. The course was divided into three classes, class A through class C. The expository essays include illustration/exernplification, process analysis, classification, definition, comparison-contrast, cause and effect. The lecturer gave short lecture before the students were asked to brainstorming and outlining the draft. On following weeks, the students would revise the draft then wrote a complete essay.From the data analysis of the pre-course essays, seven out of ten introduced topic of the essay, six out of ten gave preview of points but only four out of ten put the point into sequences; however, all of them have elaborate the topic to deliver their point, but none of them restated their thesis statement. From the analysis of the mid-course essays, there are improvement of the generic structure reflected, indicates that the students can organize the information sequentially. These findings imply that the students only need to be exposed to the structure so they will understand what is expected from them; as how their mid-course essays are better than the pre-course essays. However, the students still need to improve their writing in several aspects such as the use of punctuation mark, word choice, grammar (to be and prepositions), and the placement of the sentences.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Undergraduate) |
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| Department: | S1 - Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris |
| Contributors: | Contribution Contributors NIDN / NIDK Email Thesis advisor Yumarnamto, Mateus NIDN0723017201 UNSPECIFIED |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Expository essay, generic structure, EFL students. |
| Subjects: | English Education |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Teacher Training and Education > English Education Study Program |
| Depositing User: | Ana Pancaringtias |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Dec 2021 07:09 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Dec 2021 07:09 |
| URI: | http://repository.ukwms.ac.id/id/eprint/25745 |
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