Students’ Ability in Developing Generic Structure, Cohesion and Coherence in Writing Hortatory Exposition Text

Some English teachers always find several problems in teaching writing about the genre as the topics in the lesson plan. The problems are in the grammar, generic structure, cohesion and coherence. The purpose of this research is to describe how is the ability of students Grade XI social class of SMAN 8 Pekanbaru phenomenon in writing Hortatory Exposition text. The subjects of this research were the students at the grade XI social class registered in July-December 2019/2020 academic year. The data were collected through writing test on hortatory exposition text. It was found that the students’ ability in building generic structure and cohesion was Adequate, and the students’ ability in building coherence in hortatory exposition text was categorized as Good.