Abstract:
This study deals with the types of grammatical cohesion on the students’ abstract
in English Education Department of FKIP UMSU. The objectives of the study
were to describe the types of grammatical cohesion and to find out the dominant
types of grammatical cohesion on the Students’ Abstract of FKIP UMSU. The
source of data were taken from the abstract of the English Department of FKIP
UMSU on academic year 2016/2017. From 370 skripsi, 10% or 37 skripsi were
taken as the sample by using random sampling. Descriptive qualitative method
were applied on this research. The data were analyzed by using Miles and
Huberman (2014) theories which consist of 3 (three) steps; data reduction, data
display, conclusion drawing/ verification. The finding showed that there were five
types of grammatical cohesion found of personal reference, demonstrative
reference, additive conjunction, causal conjunction, and temporal conjunction.
There were 47 grammatical cohesion used in the students’ abstract which consist
of 4 personal reference (8.51%), 4 demonstrative reference (8.51%), 29
additive (61.70%), 6 clausal (12.76%), 4 temporal (8.51%). The most dominant
kinds of grammatical cohesion was additive conjunction (61.70%).
