Cognitive Process by Students’ Majoring in Natural And Social Science in Writing Analytical Exposition Text

This study deals with cognitive process by students’ majoring in natural and social science in writing analytical exposition text. This study attempted to investigate the reasons why the cognitive process happens in writing analytical exposition text the way it does. The data in this study were the students of SMA Nurul Iman from two different majors; they were three students of Natural Science Major and three students of Social Science Major. This study was conducted by using qualitative design of which instrument are both writing test and interview. The research findings show that the cognitive processes of the students of the two majors were different in planning, translating and reviewing. In the stage of planning, all students of Natural Science major activate their cognitive process and did planning before writing, while students of Social Science major did not activate their cognitive process and did not do planning before writing a text. In the stage of translating, the students of Natural Science transform their experience and their thinking into their writing and directly in English language, while the students of Social Science did not relate their experience into their thinking and write in Indonesian language first then translate into English language. In the stage of reviewing, the students of Natural Science did reviewing after finishing writing while the Social Science students did not do reviewing after finishing writing a text.