Anis Amperawaty, 0203516049 (2018) THE USE OF COHESIVE DEVICES IN THE BACKGROUND SECTION OF THE STUDENTS’ FORMAL WRITING. Masters thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Amperawaty, Anis. 2018. The Use of Cohesive Devices in the Background Section of the Students’ Formal Writing. Supervised by Prof. Dr. Warsono, M. A., and Puji Astuti, S. Pd, M. Pd, Ph. D. Keywords : cohesive devices, background section, formal writing This thesis deals with discourse analysis which concerns with the analysis of cohesive devices and coherence. The text analyzed in this thesis is background sections of the students’ final project. The writer intends to find out what cohesive devices (reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunction, repetition, reiteration, collocation and micro level) are found in the background sections and their contribution in making the background sections coherent and unified. The data applied in this writing are qualitative data which mean the data are written text. Data collection in this thesis is documentary study. This thesis is a descriptive study which elaborates cohesive devices and coherence and their contribution in the background section of the students’ final project. The objects of the research were 10 background sections of the students’ final project. The finding of the study were: the reference was dominated by demonstrative reference, it means that most the text contained the oral appointment where speakers identify the reference by means of putting him in scale distance. The substitution was dominated by verbal substitution, it means that most of the text contained the replacement of lingual unit categorized as verbal with other parts of lingual that have the same category. The ellipsis was dominated with nominal ellipsis, it means that most of the text is shown by numerals or other quantifying words. The conjunction was dominated by additive conjunction, it means that most of the text contained the additional information without changing information in the previous clause or phrase. The reiteration was dominated by general word, it means that most of the text contained general words, which can be general nouns, as thing, stuff, place, person, women and man. The collocation was found mostly in text seven, it means that collocation deals with the relationship between words on the basis of the fact that these often occur in the same surrounding. In conclusion, cohesive devices is appropriately used in the students’ background section.

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