The Cohesive Devices of Skripsi Abstract Written by Students of English Education Department of Muria Kudus Unversity in Academic Year 2012/2013
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- must be begun by an abstract. An abstract is a short summary written by the writer in the beginning of her skripsi. Abstract is arranged in five paragraphs with 400 words maximum or as long as one and a half page in A4S with single space. An abstract has information on the topic, the research problem, research design, basic findings, conclusion and suggestion. Readers then use the abstract to screen information and decide whether the entire report should be read. . An abstract has information on the topic, the research problem, research design, basic findings, conclusion and suggestion. Readers then use the abstract to screen information and decide whether the entire report should be read. Abstracts also give serious readers who propose to read the full report which makes reading the report easier and faster. The objectives of this research are to find out the cohesive devices used in Skripsi Abstract written by students of English Education Department of Teacher Training and Education Faculty of Muria Kudus University in academic year 2012/2013 and to describe the percentage of cohesive devices found in Skripsi abstract written by students of English Education Department of Teacher Training and Education Faculty of Muria Kudus University in academic year 2012/2013. Descriptive qualitative research is used as the design of research to reach the objectives of this research. The data of this research is the cohesive devices. Meanwhile, the data source of this research is found in the Skripsi abstract written by students of English and Education of Muria Kudus University in academic year 2012/2013. The findings showed that all the types of cohesive devices are found in the skripsi abstracts and the percentages of the cohesive devices found in the in Skripsi Abstract written by students of English Education Department of Teacher Training and Education Faculty of Muria Kudus University in academic year 2012/2013 are repetition is the dominant type with repetition 61%, followed by anaphoric reference 63%, conjunction 22%, meronymy 14%, collocation 12%, hyponymy 9%, cataphoric reference 7%, synonymy, substitution and exophoric reference 3% of each and the last is ellipsis with 0.2 %. Finally, the writer concludes that there are six cohesive in the ten Skripsi abstracts but, the writer still found some exophoric reference in the skripsi abstracts. Based on the finding, some recommendations are proposed to English teacher in order to use this research as the reference when they teach writing. Therefore, the students can learn more about cohesive devices. This research can add their knowledge to produce a well-arranged skripsi abstract. Furthermore, for the next researchers this research can give contribution to inform other researcher who want to conduct about cohesive devices.