The Study of Abstract Written by The Students of IAIN Surakarta

This study aims to identify the structure of abstract paragraphs of research paper written by the students, to identify the components of abstracts research paper written by the students and to know the language use in abstract research paper written by the students. The methodology used in this study was descriptive qualitative. The subject in this study was the abstracts of 50 students of Economy and Islamic Business Faculty IAIN Surakarta that done the final assignments. The approach of the research by analyzing the abstract of the students used theories of Cindy and Lewiston in analyzing the structure of abstract paragraphs and the components of abstract, and used the theory of Jacobs in analyzing the language use of abstract. The results of this study showed; (1) the dominants structure of abstract paragraphs written by the students in 3 paragraphs that was 88%, (2) the dominant components of abstracts written by the students; purpose, methods, result, and keywords (PMRK) by 34% of students then purpose, methods and result (PMR) by 30% students, (3) almost the language use of abstracts written by the students at the level of passed, whether in the use of agreement, tense,word order, articles, pronoun, and prepositions