Thematic Progression in the Students’ Abstract Text of Skripsi

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.