Abstract:
This study deals with thematic progression in the students’ abstract text of skripsi.
The objectives of this study were to investigate types of thematic progression in the
students’ abstract text of skripsi, to describe the realization of thematic progression
in the students’ abstract text of skripsi and to determine reason thematic progression
was used in the students’ abstract text of skripsi. This study was conducted by
applying descriptive qualitative design. The source of data were taken from
students’ abstract text of skripsi made by English department students at UMSU.
The data were analyzed by separating each sentences in the students’ abstract text
of skripsi into clauses, identifying theme and rheme, identifying thematic
progression, classifying types of thematic progression, tabulating the percentage
types of thematic progression by using the percentage formula X =
F
N
x100% , determining the most dominant types of thematic progression, and
describing the reason why thematic progression used in the students’ abstract text
of skripsi. The findings of this study were found five types of thematic progression
in the students’ abstract text of skripsi. They were parallel progression 20 (31%),
continuous progression 13 (21%), intersectional progression 5 (8%), derived theme
progression 12 (19%), and concentrated progression 13 (21%). The most dominant
types of thematic progression in the students’ abstract text of skripsi was parallel
progression 20 (31%). There were types of theme in realization thematic
progression in the students’ abstract text of skripsi. They were topical theme, textual
theme, simple theme and multiple theme. The appearances of thematic progression
in the students’ abstracts text of skripsi were intended to assist them constructing
the messages of abstracts. As a result, the abstract itself will be easier to be read and
understood by the reader.
