Lestari, Helmi Sakti (2020) An Analysis Discourse Marker Use In Students Undergraduate Thesis Of English Deparment Of IAIN Metro In The Academic Year 2019/2020. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Metro.

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Abstract

The purposes of this research are to investigate the most dominan type of discourse marker use in undergraduate thesis of English department students at IAIN Metro, and to know the use of discourse marker anylized in undergraduate thesis of English department students at IAIN Metro. This research is expected to be beneficial in informing the useful of discourse marker because the concept of discourse marker is very important in studying the writing skill.

This research is a qualitative research. The type of research is a case study. Meanwhile, the qualitative design used in this study is a descriptive study. Data was taken from the primary sources that are ten undegraduate thesis of English department students IAIN Metro in the Academic Year of 2019/2020, particularly in the part of background of study.

The results of this research prove that the most dominant type of discourse marker use in undergraduate thesis of English department students at IAIN Metro is additive The discourse markers in the type of additive used in the undergraduate thesis consist of and, or also, in addition, furthermore, and besides. The type of additive becomes the most dominant type of discourse marker because the function of additive is to add or to explore the important information in undergraduate thesis. In addition, the use of discourse marker analyzed in undergraduate thesis of English department students at IAIN Metro monotonous. The repeated discourse markers used in the students’ undergraduate thesis are 237 and. Therefore, it can be concluded that the use of discourse marker is often found in the undergraduate thesis.

Keyword: Writing, Discourse marker, Undergraduate Thesis

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