Cohesive Markers Found in Thesis Abstracts
Abstract
The research aims to describe and analyze the lexically and grammatically cohesive
markers found in students’ thesis abstracts. This is a kind of descriptive-qualitative
research. The population of the research consisted of all sentences found in nine
abstracts. Meanwhile, the sample included all sentences containing the cohesive markers taken by using purposive sampling technique. The result of the research shows that the lexically cohesive markers found in the data of lexical cohesion are: synonym (18%),repetition (54%), superordinate (12%), and collocation (16%). In addition, the grammatically cohesive markers found in the data of grammatical cohesion are: reference (15%), conjunction (39%), substitution (21%) and ellipsis (25%).
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DOI: 10.24042/ee-jtbi.v11i1.2672
