THE IMPLEMENTATION OF HAMBURGER STRATEGY TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ ABILITY TO WRITE HORTATORY EXPOSITION TEXT

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Abstract

The purpose of writing this paper is to discuss the implementation of hamburger strategy in teaching students to write hortatory exposition text. Based on the discussion, definition of writing is a receptive language process. The successful person in learning English language is determined by how well he or she can express their ideas in this language. Writing is an alternative way to carry out communication besides speaking. There are four main elements of writing; they are  planing, drafting, editing, and final draft. Hortatory exposition text is a type of text to persuade readers or listener about something that should be agreed or disagreed. Many students find difficulties in writing hortatory exposition text. They also find vocabulary and grammatical problems and punctuation problems. To solve the problems, the writer tries to give easy way to write hortatory exposition text, that is by using hamburger strategy. In this strategy , the teacher may use visual effects of hamburger strategy itself in explaining the pieces of an essay. It helps the student easy to identify the important part of an essay.