Abstract
This research aimed 1) to know the generic structure written in the hortatory exposition text. 2) to know the quality of generic structure written in the hortatory exposition text, and 3) to know the problems are faced in using the generic structure of written hortatory exposition text. This research used the descriptive qualitative method and used students’ writing of Hortatory Exposition text to be analyzed. This research sample was 25 from 32 students of second-grade at MAN 2 Kediri, from XI-MIPA 3. Data collection was carried out by conducting writing test and interview. The data was analyzed by using contextual data which includes three procedures such as: reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions and verification. Furthermore, the researcher only used an external auditor to review the entire project's data validity. This result showed that there were five problems that are faced by students 1) developing the ideas into a paragraph, 2) translating the text into English, 3) determining the topic or title in accordance with the theme, 4) making recommendations, 5) making thesis and argumentation. The researcher suggested that the teacher should explain the materials step by step and intensively.
Highlights
There are four language skills that have to be mastered by students there are listening, speaking, reading, and writing
The generic structure written in hortatory exposition text by second-grade students of MAN 2 Kediri and problems is faced in using the generic structure of written hortatory exposition text
The researcher found twelve students (48%) got a very good score in writing argumentation because every paragraph has a new argumentation with a new topic, has supporting details are related to the topic sentence, and supported by knowledge, one student (4%) got good score because it does not have enough supporting details and eleven students (48%) got poor score because it does not have supporting details
Summary
There are four language skills that have to be mastered by students there are listening, speaking, reading, and writing. How the students express their idea, opinion, and information, they need to formulate what they are going to write in a good sentence and paragraph. According to Fauziah & Sudarmaji (2020), writing is a written product of thinking, drafting, and revising procedures that require specialized skills It means that writing has complicated steps that should be done by the writer to produce a written text, so it needs a special skill to do it. Based on Walker (2010), stated that there are five elements of good writing, there are purpose, audience, clarity, unity, and coherence It means that the writer cannot do in any old way to write a text because there are some elements that should be applied to do good writing
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