• Yulia Esti Katrini

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• Farikah

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good writing is one that is cohesive and coherent. Cohesion and coherence are
essential textual components to create organized and comprehensiveness of the texts. To create
cohesive and coherent texts, Theme and Rheme play an important role. This qualitative research
focuses on analyzing types of Theme applied by the students of English Department of Tidar
University and the tendency of the students in applying the types of Theme. The unit analyses of
this research are clauses of analytical exposition texts written by the third semester students of
English Department, Tidar University. Based on Gerot and Wignell’s theory (1994), it can be
found that the types of Theme in the students’ analytical exposition texts are unmarked and
marked topical, textual and interpersonal Theme. Among the above types of Theme, unmarked
topical Themes are mostly used by the students in their analytical exposition texts. It is
55.11%. The next type is textual Theme (36.89%), marked topical Theme (5.78%) and
interpersonal Theme (2.22%)

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