The Cognitive Process of Different Gender in Writing Argumentative Text

The aims of this study were to know what cognitive
process occurred in writing argumentative text based on different
gender and the factors affect the student’s cognitive process in
writing argumentative text. The population of this study was
grade XII of Free Methodist Senior High School Medan in
2019/2020 academic years and the sample was the big ten rank of
XII science. The sample was taken by purposive technique. This
study was conducted by using descriptive qualitative research
design of which data were the transcript of think aloud protocol
and retrospective interview. In analyzing the data, this research
used model of Miles and Huberman, namely data collection, data
reduction, data display, and data verification. The results of the
data analysis showed that the cognitive processes of the different
genders in writing argumentative text were different. The male
cognitive process in writing argumentative text occurred in the
two stages, they are (a) planning by organizing the ideas and (b)
translating the text. While the female cognitive process occurred
in three stages, they are (a) Planning by generating and
organizing the ideas, (b) translating, and (c) reviewing by reading
and editing the text. All of them were occurred because the first
is their habitual on how they usually think and organize their
writing. The second is because they have different ability in
writing, and the last is also because they have a different
language proficiency related to the second language.