Exploring Cohesive Devices on the Abstracts of Undergraduate ThesisudWritten by English Language Teaching Department Students of IAIN SyekhudNurjati Cirebon in October 2016ud(Qualitative Research)

摘要

MOH. CHAERUL ANWAR:udLanguage is the main factor of communication between people withudothers. Communication between people with others through language can beuddelivered in two ways, spoken language and written language. One form ofudwritten language that is useful to convey knowledge to the people is discourse.udWritten discourse can be formed like a thesis. Thesis is a scientific writing basedudon the student’s research. One of the important parts of thesis is abstract. Abstractudis the summary of the thesis. In a discourse, there are many sentences which haveudto be united and hang together. The discourse is able to have good unity inudconnecting between sentences with the help of cohesive devices. Cohesiveuddevices represent cohesive relation.udThis study aims (1) to find out the types of cohesive devices areudcommonly used on the abstracts, (2) to describe the usage of cohesive devices areudused on the abstract.udThe study is designed as qualitative research. The data is taken fromudten selected randomly undergraduate thesis abstracts written by English LanguageudTeaching Department students of IAIN Syekh Nurjati Cirebon published inudOctober 2016. The technique of collecting data is documentation. The writer is asudthe instrument of research. Then, the technique of analysis is content analysisudbased on the theory of Halliday and Hasan (1976) of cohesive devices.udThe findings show that several cohesive devices found onudundergraduate thesis abstracts including grammatical and lexical cohesion. Theudtype of conjunction is commonly used on the abstracts. The number ofudconjunction is 112 or 45% from all cohesive devices found. The use of cohesiveuddevices that are found on the thesis abstracts connects one sentence with the otherudsentence.udKeywords: thesis, abstract, discourse analysis, cohesive devices.