Litera Jurnal Bahasa Dan Sastra 2016 1 ISSN 2442-6865 Vol. 2 No. 1. Januari 2016 SYSTEMIC LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF TEXT APPRAISAL ON STUDENTS’THESES WRITING IN ENGLISH Magdalena Ngongo Artha Wacana Christian University, Kupang magda_tars@yahoo.com ABSTRACT This paper is aimed to describe text appraisal of thesis writing, as one of the requirements to fulfil undergraduate degree of English teaching. There are 10 English theses writing taken to be analyzed qualitatively. These theses are written by undergraduate students who got „A‟ grade in their theses examination. Based on the analysis, it was found out that in thesis writing, text appraisal employed covers three types of attitude, namely affect, appreciation and judgments. In addition graduation and engagement can be also included in language evaluation in which engagement is the most used. Referring to the attitude, judgment is more used than affect and appreciation. This fact indicates that the students‟ theses writing more personal and emotional than appreciative. Engagement was also most used than graduation. This fact indicates that undergraduate students make use of types of expand namely, entertain as well as attribute, whereas in graduation they more concerned for intensification and quantification and had very limited concerns or even ignored the use of sharpening and softening resource. This fact might suggest that students should be taught and trained more relating to writing, such as academic writing that specifying in evaluating language. Keywords: text appraisal, theses writing, systemic ABSTRAK Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan penilaian teks penulisan skripsi, sebagai salah satu syarat untuk memenuhi gelar sarjana mengajar bahasa Inggris. Ada 10 skripsi dalam Bahasa Inggris dianalisis secara kualitatif. Skripsi ini ditulis oleh mahasiswa yang mendapat nilai 'A' dalam ujian skripsi mereka. Berdasarkan analisis, ditemukan bahwa dalam penulisan skripsi, teks penilaian yang digunakan mencakup tiga jenis sikap, yaitu mempengaruhi, penghargaan dan penilaian. Evaluasi bahasa yang paling digunakan. Mengacu kepada sikap, penilaian lebih digunakan daripada pengaruh dan penghargaan. Fakta ini menunjukkan bahwa skripsi mahasiswa ditulis dengan lebih pribadi dan emosional. Keterlibatan juga paling sering digunakan daripada kelulusan. Fakta ini menunjukkan bahwa mahasiswa menggunakan jenis memperluas sedangkan dalam kelulusan mereka lebih cenderung untuk intensifikasi dan kuantifikasi dan memiliki perhatian yang sangat terbatas atau bahkan mengabaikan penggunaan