Imagery in the Journals Written by the Writing I Students Of the English Department Of Widya Mandala Catholic University Surabaya

Abstract

Many students think that writing is a daunting task and,
therefore, they cannot write a good composition and journal writing is
assigned for writing improvement. One of the aspects in writing a journal
is imagery. Imagery is the use of concrete words to replace the abstract
ones in order to enable the readers to imagine in everything experienced
by the author. This study explored the kinds of imagery which are found
in the journals written by the Writing I students of Widya Mandala
Catholic University Surabaya. The subjects were eleven students of
Writing I. Each student submitted 4 journals. A checklist was used to
organize the imagery in the journals. Not all writing journals that were
analyzed exposed imagery. Visual and auditory imagery were found.
There were forty seven examples of visual imagery and six examples of
auditory imagery. The olfactory, gustatory and tactile imagery were not
found

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