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The Use of Cohesive Devices in Theses’ Abstracts Written by Undergraduate Students of English Department at STAIN Kediri.

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This study is an analysis of cohesion in theses’ abstracts written by undergraduate students of English departemen at STAIN Kediri. Abstract is one of the important elements of the thesis. Therefore, the abstract must be written as a cohesive text, not just a collection of unrelated sentences. This study aims to find out the types of cohesive devices found in undergraduate students of English department in their theses’ abstracts and to find out the most and least dominant types of cohesive device in their theses’ abstracts.
The writer used corpus based study as his research design. The data is taken from fifty selected randomly undergraduate theses’ abstracts written by English department students of STAIN Kediri published from 2013 to 2017. The technique of collecting data is documentation. The writer is as the instrument of research. Then, the technique of analysis is content analysis based on the theory of Halliday and Hasan (1976) of cohesive devices.
This study exposes two main findings. First, the type of cohesive devices that are employed in undergraduate students’ theses’ abstracts are reference (2051 items), conjunction (593 items), substitution (56 items), ellipsis (30 items), repetition (141 items), synonymy (40 items), antonymy (13 items). Second, the most cohesive devices used in their theses’ abstracts are reference with 2051 items (70.34%) occurrences and the least is antonymy with 13 items (0.44%) occurrences. Based on these findings, it can be concluded that cohesive devices are important devices to create cohesive abstracts. Without the devices, sentences would seem to lack connection to each other and might not be considered as a text (Halliday and Hasan, 1976). Therefore, it is recommended that a student who wants to write an abstract or particularly a whole thesis comprehend the theory of cohesion.

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KS / TBI-18 / 004

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Kediri : ., 2018

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xv, 54 hlm.: bibl.: 27 cm

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English

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KS TBI-11

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Ed. 1, cet. 1

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Cohesive Devices
Cohesion
abstract

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