AN ANALYSIS OF COHESION IN DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: THE UGLY TRUTH
CHAPTER
I
INTRODUCTION
A. The Background of the Study
The
usage of cohesive devices in writing descriptive paragraph was very usefull in
novel by Jeff Kinney “ Diary of a Wimpy Kid The Ugly Truth” year 2010,.
According to Sena (2010) Cohesive devices are typically single words or phrases
that basically make the text hang together. By analogy, they are much like the
seem in our clothing which keep items like jackets and trouser together. It is helpful
for students in develoving their ideas to make a good paragraph especially writing
descriptive paragraph. A cohesive device is when a word or phrase is linked together
in a sentence or article. Cohesive devices were useful English language conjunctions,
transitional phrases, synonyms and pronouns that express ideas in cohesive manner.
They
were used to join sentences together to make ideas more understandable to the
reader. Therefore, the researcher had some reason of this problem, such as: the
readers had lack of comprehending about cohesive devices in novel, the readers
had difficulties in developing idea, the readers still had lack of vocabulary, They
also could not write a good paragraph especially in novel “ Diary of a Wimpy Kid
The Ugly Truth” by using cohesive devices, and the students were easy to get bored
in writing.
The
first reason, based on the writer’s experience in teaching, there were some
writer did not understand about cohesive devices in . Cohesive devices can tell
the writer what we are doing in a sentence and help to guide them through our
writing. They signal to the writer what the
relationships are between the different clauses, sentences and paragraphs. They
also argued that writing is the most difficult subject the students have to
produce a text by using English. They have to write about what they think in
their mind and state it on a paper by using the correct procedure. Meyers
(2005:2) states that writing is a way to produse language you do naturally when
you speak.
The
second reason, writing paragraph by using
cohesive devices is one of writing types that could not be mastered by students.
In writing paragraph, the students had difficulties in developing idea and
appropriate word and confused to find the topic. Student’s difficulty in writing
good composition could be seen from their poor writing. Pradiyono (2006:165) states
that descriptive paragraph is a paragraph that of an object, both living thing and
dead things including human and animals. Writting is focus on the of parts,
characteristics, specialist, qualities or quantities by using objectives or attributed.
The description must be organized so that the reader could vividly image the sceene
being describe. The arrangement of the details in a descriptive paragraph of details
depend on the subject. The selection of the details depend on the describer’s
purpose.
The
third reason, the students still had lack of vocabulary. They did not know how
to arrange the sentence well. They were still confused to express and to
generate their ideas that should be conveyed in text. They were still got difficulties
to write well although they knew the topic which has given by the teacher.
Students had lack confidence in teks on their own. writer also had low of vocabulary
often make mistake in selecting the appropriate words to describe the characteristics
of the subject. In writing paragraph, vocabulary is needed by the students to describe
something clearly. It can help them to write word by word to be phrases and then
phrases by phrases to be sentence and so on until a paragraph. Without having
enough vocabulary, they could not build a paragraph.
The
fourth reason, the students could not writing a good paragraph. The students
difficulties in developing the sentence because they had not good foundation in
grammar. Many students had not capabilities in grammar. They also got
difficulties in using English grammar especially in writing paragraph. Most of
students assumed that English in written is the most the difficult subject. Because
they must have knowledge about English grammar. It make the students afraid to make
many mistakes when they write their ideas. By mastering grammar they will
understand the rules that should used in paragraph.
The
last reason, the students confused in comprehend about the types of cohesive
devices. Cohesive devices is difficult to understand by students. Many types of
cohesive devices. Its made the students confused to differrences and
understanding about the types. There was a types have a same meaning with the other
types. Students also confused to differences about pronoun. Cohesive devices have
two class that are grammatical cohesion and lexical cohesion who made the readers
difficult to understand.
From
the explanation above, it can be concluded that writing is very important skill
in English subject. The process of writing paragraph would become as serious
problem for the students. They have difficulties in understanding about cohesive
devices in writing. They still had low vocabulary and they also got difficulties
in using English grammar. They confused about the types of cohesive devices and
difficult to understanding. Writing paragraph
by using cohesive devices is not be mastered by the readers. That is why the
writer is interested in this problem because the writer want to know the students’
achievement about the types of cohesive devices. Therefore, the writer choose the
ttitle“ An analysis of cohesin in comic
Diary of a Wimpy Kid The Ugly Truth” By Jeef Kinney’s.
B. The
Identification of the problem
The
problems of the research were identified as follows:
1. The students had lack of knowledge about cohesive devices in writing.
2. The students got some difficulties in developing ideas in sentences.
3. The students were lack of vocabulary, and were not able to arrange the sentence well.
4. The students could not write a good paragraph especially in writing lexical and gramatical cohesive.
5. The students do not pay attention to the importance of cohesion and coherence in writing.
C. The Scope and Limitation of the Study
The
scope of this study was cohesive devices and the limitation of the study was
focused on grammatical cohesion.
D. The
Formulation of the Study
The
problems of the study were formulated as the following:
1. What types of grammatical cohesion were used in Diary of a wimpy kid the ugly truth.
2. What type of grammatical cohesion was dominantly used in Diary of a wimpy kid the ugly truth.
E. The Objective
of the Study
1. To find out the types of grammatical cohesion used in Diary of a Wimpy Kid The Ugly Truth.
2. To derive the dominant type of grammatical cohesion used in Diary of a Wimpy Kid The Ugly Truth.
F. The
Significant of the Study
The
result of this study was expected to be useful theoretically and practically
significances.
1. Theoritically
In general, the results of this
study are the importance of theoritically expected to contribute towards
learning English, especially using cohesive a good writing
2. Practically, the result of this research can be useful for :
a.
Students to improve students’ English learning
achievement in writing skill especially writing
paragraph by using cohesive devices and they can more enjoyable in
learning English
b.
Teachers to enchance and improve
learning in the classroom.
c.
School to contribute to the school how to
improve the students’ learning achievement especially in English.
d.
The headmaster to increase the students’
competence in writing skill especially paragraph
by using cohesive devices.
e.
The writer to be one reference to conduct
the same study and to be an actual experience in the teaching learning process.
f.
The writer to useful for them in getting
information about cohesive devices in written form or as references about writing
descriptive paragraph by using cohesive devices.
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