Lexical and Grammatical Cohesion in the Undergraduate Students’ Abstracts

Episiasi, Episiasi; Syaputri, Wuri; Suramto, Suramto; Kasriyati, Destina

doi:10.31539/leea.v5i2.3310

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“…The data of this study were taken from two undergraduate theses at one private university in Jakarta that were randomly chosen from Academic Year 216/2017. The data taken only focused on the research findings and discussion sections since those are the essential parts of a thesis to show the pictures of the result of the research and answer the research questions (Episiasi et al, 2022;Prasetyaningrum et al, 2022). Because of its importance, the information should be conveyed systematically and coherently so that the result of the research can be presented.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…thinking skills before they put what they read into their writing to make paragraphs readable (Bezanilla et al, 2019;Chen, 2019;Episiasi et al, 2022;Wrahatnolo & Munoto, 2018). In addition, the writing activity connects sentence to sentence and applies paragraphs to each context.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The cohesive devices are crucial parts of the text. A text will only be logical and comprehensible if readers read from one to another paragraph smoothly (Delfia et al, 2023;Episiasi et al, 2022;Jayanti & Hidayat, 2021). The idea should be connected from sentence to sentence.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Grammatical cohesion found in undergraduate student’s thesis writing: A case study at one private university in Indonesia

Ulfa,

Ramadhani

2024

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Writing an excellent and comprehensive text depends on applying appropriate grammatical cohesive devices. This study aims to investigate the types and errors of the grammatical cohesive devices found in the undergraduate student's thesis. The analysis used in the present study applied the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) proposed by Halliday and Hasan (2014). Through the qualitative design with content analysis, this study examines two undergraduate students' theses, focusing on finding and discussing sections at one private university in Jakarta. The analysis revealed that grammatical cohesive devices in the thesis are not diverse. The data's most dominant grammatical cohesive devices are references and conjunctions—no elliptical and substitution devices are found in the data. Besides, errors in applying grammatical cohesion in the undergraduate students' writing were found, especially in using personal and demonstrative references and extension conjunctions. It indicates that the students still lack understanding in applying the knowledge of grammatical cohesion in their writing, influencing the readers' understanding in capturing information from the thesis. It implies that the knowledge of appropriate grammatical cohesion is essential for students in academic writing, predominantly undergraduate thesis, to convey the ideas and information properly and coherently.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%