Istikomah, . (2017) An Error Analysis of Grammatical Cohesion on Students’ Abstract of Undergraduate Thesis in State Islamic Institute of Metro in Academic Year Of 2016/2017. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Metro.

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Abstract

The main purpose of this research was to figure out the grammatical cohesion errorswhich appeared inthe abstract of students’ undergraduate thesis ofEnglish Education Departement ofState Islamic Institute Metro in the year of 2016/2017.

The characteristic of this research was descriptive qualitative. The primary data of thisresearch were taken from twentyabstracts of students’ undergraduate thesis of English Education Departementin State Islamic Instituteof Metro in the year of 2016/2017. The data were collected bydocumentation, and interview. Moreover, they werecategorized,decoded, analyzed deeply and represented by qualitative descriptive.In addition, Creswell model was used to analyze the data which had been collected.

The result of this research data shown that grammatical cohesion was used in the abstract. After analyzing this phenomenon, there were4items (9%) of addition errors,19 items (40%) of omission errors, 22items (47%) of misformation errors, and 2 items (4%) of misordering errors in the abstract of students’ undergraduate thesis.In addition, the result ofinterview shows that they knowledge well about abstract but they are difficult to put suitable gramatical cohesion in the sentence. It is confirmed that they rarely use grammatical cohesion in their scientificn writing. The conclusion of this research isthe students’ knowledge of grammatical cohesion aspects was still needed to be improved in their scientific writing. Because, there are still many grammatical cohesion errors appearing in the abstracts, in which the errors of misformation are the most errors made by the students.Keywords:Scientific writing, abstract, grammatical cohesion errors.

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