READING THE ARGUMENT AS ASSESSMENT PROCESS INDONESIAN OPINION TEXT
Abstract
The development of opinion text assessment at this time was very rapid until a computer-based
assessment emerged. In this kind of assessment, the emphasis is on seeing the tendency of the number
of positive and negative words in the text. In fact, the main element of opinion text is the argument. This
research seeks to deepen the linguistic process in opinion assessment before it can later proceed
towards computer-based assessment. The analysis offered is the use of the theory of reading evaluation
which is applied with the Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) and Toulmin's argument theory. These
steps are able to make the findings of the author's argument more accurate than just looking for positive
and negative words in the text.