It is generally recognized that many second language learners have difficulties with cohesion in academic texts.  Writing seems to be the most difficult subject for many students. To produce good writing, it is necessary to know how to organize Theme and Rheme in a text. Thematic structure as an important feature in textual metafunction plays a significant role in promoting the textual coherenc...

In this article the issue of textual organisation is analysed from the viewpoint of thematicprogression. We propose to study the extent to which the different thematic networks orprogressions established within a text vary depending on the type of text, namely in thisinstance a specialised scientific text and a popularised account. Some possible didactic offshootsfrom this analy...

The Low Achiever’s writing is frequently categorized as the low coherent text due to quality of their writings based on rubric used at school. Hence, focus in this study analyze Types Theme and Thematic Progression patterns found Descriptive Writings with descriptive-qualitative research design. objective observe coherency achiever’s analysis Progression. steps are selecting two descriptive tex...