“…Sharndama (2013), Andayani (2014), Purwadina and Huda (2014), Rahayu (2015), Faghih and Mousaee (2015), Ali and Mahadin (2016), Adewibowo, Imranuddin, & Azwandi (2018), Surjowati (2018), Rahayati, Herlina, & Surahmat (2021, and Raputri, Pratama, & Hartono (2022) reported that the use of elaborative markers being the most frequent discourse markers used. Conversely, Al Owayid (2018) and Sumardiyani and Susanto (2020) declared that contrastive discourse is the most frequently used by students in their writing. To sum up, the frequency of discourse markers used in writing varies based on the function of discourse markers and the kind of writing.…”