Title:
INVOLVING READERS IN WRITING: AN ANALYSIS OF IDEAS DEVELOPMENT IN SELECTED FEMALE STUDENTS’ ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAYS

Authors:
Nita Maya Valiantien

Abstract:
Studies that discovered females maintain a friendly relation in a conversation have encouraged the author of this paper to explore how female writers develop their ideas in writing. In specific, this paper aims to see how female students develop their ideas in argumentative essays. This paper also attempts to present the variation of transition signals used by the students as one of the strategies to create coherence in their essays. The object of this study is the argumentative essays composed by the female students of English literature study program at Mulawarman University. Using content analysis technique, the selected argumentative essays written by female students who enrolled in academic writing course were analyzed to see the way these students developed their ideas from introductory, body, and concluding paragraphs in the essays. To see how the students maintain the coherence in the essays, the analysis toward the use of transition signal was done. The results provide the information that the pattern of ideas development that mostly found in female students’ argumentative essays is initiated by the elaboration of arguments and supporting evidence before the refutation of opposition’s points. For the transition signals, the results of the analysis showed that most of the selected essays presented various transition signals in its introductory, body, and conclusion

Keywords:
argumentative essay, patterns of organization, coherence, transition signals

DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.37500/IJESSR.2021.4606