Ilham Setiawan Arifin, 2201415091 (2020) Cohesion and Coherence in the Final Project Abstracts of English Department Undergraduate Students of Universitas Negeri Semarang in the Academic Year of 2017-2018. Under Graduates thesis, UNNES.

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Abstract

This study aimed to examine cohesion and coherence of the students’ final project abstracts. It also focused to reveal the factors which influence the quality of the students’ final project abstracts. This study concerned with text analysis. The investigation approach of this study used written discourse analysis. The data of this study were thirty abstracts which were taken randomly from final project abstracts of English Department undergraduate students in the academic year of 2017-2018. The findings showed that the students did not utilize the five types of cohesive devices to build cohesion in their abstracts. However, it was sufficient to utilize at least three types of cohesive devices to make the abstracts cohesive. Based on Theme and rheme theory by Halliday, the abstracts are written coherently because they apply the use of cohesive devices. This research also found that there were two factors which influenced the quality of the abstracts. They were the usage of cohesive devices to build cohesion in the abstracts and the usage of Theme and rheme and thematic progression to build coherence in the abstracts. In conclusion, it is clear that the usage of cohesive devices and theme and rheme helped the students in writing the abstracts cohesively and coherently.

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