Students’ News Item Texts Based on Generic Structure

31 text and social function of the text. The complete descriptions of those three aspects were presented in the paragraphs below:

4.2.1 Students’ News Item Texts Based on Generic Structure

The generic structure analysis was based on aspect number one. It is the aspect of organization of the text, including the introduction, body and conclusion of the text. As stated in chapter II, the generic structures of news item text are: newsworthy events, background events, and sources. In addition, it should be completed with a headline also. Most of the students’ writings showed fair enough structure in writing test. They understood structures in writing news item text, but most of them did not show appropriately paragraph. From the result, it can be seen that the students’ writings were divided into five levels as in Brown’s rubric. The description of the students’ writing in generic structure was provided below: a. Students’ generic structure was categorized in adequate level. From the result, it was found that there are three students were categorized in this level. They got 13 score for the organization aspect, because the generic structures of those students’ writing were arranged well. Here, I give one of the best examples of them: 32 “Obama: ‘Getting our man’ outweighed risks of raid” The President of America, Barack Obama announced the leader of Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden’s death on 1 st May 2011 in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Monitoring the commando raid operation in the White House Situation Room a week ago, knew when one of the helicopters carrying Navy SEALs made an unplanned hard landing. Obama said that as nervous as he was about the raid, hadn’t lose sleep over the possibility that bin laden might be killed. But he stopped short of accusing Pakistani officials of harbouring the man who planned the Sept. 11, 2011, terror attacks that killed nearly 3.000 in America Jakarta PostMonday05092011 Yuliani, 2011 The description of the above paragraph was based on aspect 1 Organization: introduction, body, and conclusion. The discussions of them are as follows: 1. There was appropriate title, which is “Obama: ‘Getting our man’ outweighed risks of raid” 2. There was an effective introductory paragraph, for instance: The President of America, Barack Obama announced the leader of Al- Qaeda, Osama bin Laden’s death on 1 st May 2011 in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The above paragraph is right because it was written on the newsworthy events, this part showed us the information about which the participants in the text, were it took place, and when did it occurred. Newsworthy Event Source Background Events 33 3. Topic is stated, it leads to body. Transitional expressions used; such as: “…But..” In addition, some supports evidence given for generalizations. 4. Finally, conclusion logical and complete source, that is “Jakarta PostMonday05092011” b. Students’ generic structure was categorized in fair level. From the result, it was found that there are nine students were categorized in this level. They got score in average of 12 for the organization aspect, because the generic structures of those students’ writing were good. Here, I give the example of students’ news item text in this category: “Obama: ‘Getting our man’ outweighed risks of raid” America President, Barack Obama announced the leader of Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden’s death on 1 st May 2011 in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Commando to compare raid operation in the White House Situation Room a week ago. Obama said he and the top aides “had a course of when gunfire and explosions took place” half around the world, and knew when one of the helicopters carrying Navy SEALs made an unplanned hard landing. But we didn’t admit get information clearly about what was happening inside the compound” he said. Jakarta PostMonday0509201111.05 A.M Zholinda, 2011 The description of above paragraph was based on aspect 1 Organization: introduction, body, and conclusion. The discussions of them are as follows: Newsworthy Event Background Events Source 34 1 There was adequate title headline which is “Obama: ‘Getting our man’ outweighed risks of raid” 2 The complete introduction was stated in the text which tells about who the participants were in the text, where it took place, and when it occurred, like: America President, Barack Obama announced the leader of Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden’s death on 1 st May 2011 in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The above paragraph is right because it was written on the newsworthy events, this part showed us the information about which the participants were in the text, where it took place, and when it occurred. 3 The body of essay is acceptable, but some evidence may be lacking, and some ideas were not fully developed, such as: Commando to compare raid operation in the White House Situation Room a week ago. Obama said he and the top aides “had a course of when gunfire and explosions took place” half around the world, and knew when one of the helicopters carrying Navy SEALs made an unplanned hard landing. But we didn’t admit get information clearly about what was happening inside the compound” he said. The above background events were not fully developed because this part didn’t show us the information about the case. In this case, it should be about the monitoring the commando in the White House Situation Room. 35 4 Then the sequence of text was logical but transitional expression may be absent or misused. c. Students’ generic structure was categorized in unacceptable level. From the result, it was found that there are eighteen students who categorized in this level. They got score in average of 10 for the organization aspect, because the generic structures of those students’ writing were not completed by an appropriate headline. Here, I give one of the common examples of students’ news item text in this category: No Headline President Barrack Obama announced the leader Al- Qaeda, Osama bin Laden’s death on 1 st May 2011 in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Monitoring the commando raid operation in White Situation Room a week ago, and when one of the helicopters carrying Navy SEALs made an unplanned hard landing. Jakarta PostMonday0509201111.05 A.M Risbiyanto, 2011: Appendix 7 The description of above paragraph was based on aspect 1 Organization: introduction, body, and conclusion. The discussions of them are as follows: 1 There was no title headline. 2 The introduction was mediocre enough, it tells about who the participants were in the text, were it took place, and when it occurred, like: President Barrack Obama announced the leader Al- Qaeda, Osama Newsworthy Event Background Events Source 36 bin Laden’s death on 1 st May 2011 in Abbottabad, Pakistan. 3 There were some problems with the order of ideas in the body; the generalizations may not be fully supported by the evidence given, for instance: “…and when one of the helicopters carrying Navy SEALs made an unplanned hard landing…” The above background events were not fully developed because this part didn’t show us the information about the case. In this case, it should be about the monitoring of the commando in the White House Situation Room. d. There were no students categorized into excellent, good and not college level work.

4.2.2 Students’ News Item Texts Based on Language Features