“…The important role of clause theme in writing a text has attracted a number of researchers to conduct studies on theme-rheme organization in a text, such as theme-rheme pattern (Belmonte & McCabe-Hidalgo, 1998;Dejica-Cartis & Cozma, 2013;Ebrahimi, 2016;Jingxia & Li, 2013), theme markedness (Rosa, 2007a;Sofyan & Tarigan, 2018), and thematic progression (Gunawan & Aziza, 2017;He & Tian, 2018;Rahmawati, 2016;Rosa, 2007bRosa, , 2011Yang, 2008;Yunita, 2018). Those studies are particularly aimed at showing the contribution of theme-rheme patterns to the text cohesiveness due to several common problems related to textual cohesion and coherence in writing.…”