An Analysis of Textuality in the Students’ Essay at STKIP Yayasan Dharma Bakti Lubuk Alung

Most of the students ignored the textuality in their essay. They regarded it as a part of the topic in Discourse Analysis and Semantic pragmatics subject, not to apply in writing. This research describes textuality problem and (2) the sources of the problem in the students‟ descriptive writing. The data consist of 12 descriptive essays in Essay Writing course written by the fourth semester students of STKIP Yayasan Dharma Bakti Lubuk Alung. The technique used to analyze the data was analytic document. The results of data analysis revealed that: (1) the students‟ problem in textuality found highly in the application of cohesion and intentionality/acceptability, in the form of omission, addition, misformation, and misordering. (2) The sources of the textuality problem in the students‟ descriptive writing are overgeneralization, ignorance of the rule restrictions, false concept hypothesized, incomplete application of rules, and uncategorized. (3) The others criteria of the textuality problems related to the lack application of cohesion and coherence