AN ANALYSIS OF DISCOURSE MARKERS USED BY STUDENTS IN WRITING ARGUMENTATIVE TEXT (The Study on Fifth Semester Students in English Study Program Bengkulu University in the Academic Year Of 2018/2019)

ABSTRACT Syahdanis, Junitri. 2019. An Analysis of Discourse Markers Used by Students in Writing Argumentative Text. Undergraduate Thesis. Bengkulu: English Education Study Programof Department of Language and Art of Teacher Training and Education Faculty of Bengkulu University. This study was designed as ananalytical research which was aimed to analyzeDiscourse Markers used by students in writing argumentative text. The instrument used to collect the data was writing test. The theories used were from Fraser (1999) combined Martinez (2004) to find the dominant of Discourse Markers and Kao and Chen (2011) to find the accuracy of Discourse Markers written by the students. The subjects of this study were78 fifth semester students of English study program in the academic year of 2018/2019. The result of the study showed that the dominant Discourse Markers found was Elaborative Markers (33.91%) with Alsooccur 101 occurrences (29.28%).In addition, the result also showed that most of the students could use Discourse Markers accurately in writing argumentative text because the inappropriateness found was only 18 (5.19%) from 345 Discourse Markers. Key words: Argumentative Text, DMs, English Study Program