Gender Writing Styles of Bataknese and Javanese Senior High School Students in Writing Arguments

The objectives of this study are to describe the characteristics of gender writing style of Bataknese and Javanese students and to describe the reason ofmale and female Bataknese and Javanese students’ writing style characteristics the way they do. This resesarch was conducted at SMAN 1 Onanrunggu and SMAN 2 Percut Sei Tuan. The mwthod of this research was qualitative desctiptive research. The subjects of this research were XI grade students of SMAN 1 Onanrunggu and SMAN 2 Percut Sei Tuan. The technique of datacollection was writing assignment. The research finding showed that in writing argumentative text, the writing style characteristics of each gender of Bataknese and Javanese students were different. The writing style characteristics of Male Bataknese Senior High School studentsare strong, convincing, logical and rational. Meanwhile, the characteristics of writing style used by female Bataknese senior high school students in writing argumentative textare emotional and sentimental, strong and logical. For Javanese students, the characteristics of writing style used by male are strong, logical, sentimental and terse, while the characteristics of writing style used by female are logical, terse, sentimental and silly. The reason that caused different characteristic of their writing style are gender and culture.