Grammatical Cohesion In Collected Thesis

摘要

The purpose of this study is (1) to explain the use of grammatical cohesion on the aspects of reference, substitution, ellipsis, and conjunction in the students' thesis; (2) explain the quality of thesis writing. The object of this research is thesis student of Faculty of Language and Arts Universitas Negeri Padang with number of research sample 15 thesis. Samples are taken randomly from thesis sets in 2015, 2016, and 2017. Data collection methods and techniques are language methods. The technique used is the library method by dividing the discourse into several sentences to be grouped and analyzed based on cohesion aspect, then forwarded with basic techniques tapping followed by the technique of record. The results showed that from 192 paragraphs with 362 pairs of sentences there is a marker, there were grammatical cohesion markers from dominant to the least used, ie (1) references, (2) conjunctions, (3) ellipsis and (4) substitution. From the data of the study, there are still significant errors in the use of grammatical cohesion.