The Realization of  Cohesion Devices Applied in Students’ Business Letters

Ni Putu Evi Wahyu Citrawati; Gede Eka Wahyu

doi:10.52690/jadila.v4i1.442

Authors

Ni Putu Evi Wahyu Citrawati Universitas Udayana
Gede Eka Wahyu Institut Pariwisata dan Bisnis Internasional

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52690/jadila.v4i1.442

Keywords:

Writing Text, , Business Letter, Cohesion Device

Abstract

The study aims to discover the students’competency in writing text particularly business letters in English. The study is tried to find out the cohesion devices used by the students’. The participants were the six semester of the Tourism and Business Institut. The number of participant were 50 students. They have got several treatment how to write business letter in English. After the treatment, the researcher collect and analyse data. Qualitative method is used in analysing data. The result shown several types of cohesion applied in students’ writing such as grammatical cohesion; pronoun, substitution, conjunction and lexical cohesion; synonimy, antonimy, and superordinate.

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