ANALYSIS OF THE SCHEMATIC STRUCTURES OF THE STUDENTS’ WRITTEN REPORT TEXTS

Abstract

Writing is a complex skill. To be able to write a text, the students must be able to master some competencies, such as mastering the social function, language features and schematic structures of the texts. This qualitative study aims at investigating the consistency of the students of English Department of Tidar University in employing the schematic structures of report texts. Report is one of the text types that is taught in writing class of English Department and it is a factual text. The subject of this research was the students of English Department of Tidar University (Untidar). Based on the data analysis, it can be seen that 19 texts out of 20 or 95 % of the students are consistent in using the schematic structures of report text based on Gerot and Wignell’s theory (1994). It means that they applied general classification and description. Based on the research findings, it is suggested that the lecturers of writing class should introduce text types together with social function, schematic structures and also language features to the students. They are recommended to apply text-based syllabus in teaching writing.