AN ANALYSIS OF LEXICAL COHESION IN THE ABSTRACT OF THE SKRIPSI WRITTEN BY ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT STUDENTS OF MURIA KUDUS UNIVERSITY IN OCTOBER 2012

Writing is one kind of expression in language as an alternative to sound. The product of written language is various for example book, brochure, scientific work, report etc. Final project or Skripsi is a scientific work based on the student’s research underneath lecturer guidance to fulfil strata one (S1) of educational stage. One of the important part of skripsi is abstract, because abstract is the summary of the whole skripsi.Therefore, since an abstract is a significance of an academic writing that will be firstly read by educated people, it became extremely important for researcher to make their abstract as clear as possible. Usually, abstract is written in brief and sometimes it makes the writer do not pay attention in the cohesion of the sentences. It is should not happen because cohesion is needed to make the meaning of the text clear and understandable. The objectives of this research are to find out the lexical cohesion that used in abstract of skripsiof English Education Department of Muria Kudus University in October 2012. This research belongs to descriptive qualitative. The data in this study is the lexical cohesion found in the sentence in the abstract of the skripsi written by students of English Education Department. Furthermore, the data source in this study is the abstract of 20 skripsi written by the students of English Education Department of Teaching Training and Education Faculty of Muria Kudus University in October 2012. The result of the study are; the lexical cohesion that are found in the 20 abstract of skripsiwritten by English Education Department Students of Muria Kudus University in October 2012, they are: repetition 1407 (74.3%), synonym 155 (8.2%), hyponym 204 (10.8%), meronym 41 (2.2%), and collocation 85 (4.5%). The writer suggests for the students of English Education Department must pay more attention in lexical cohesion when composing their abstract of their skripsi to make their abstract easy to understand and well organized. The writer hopes, this research can be used as reference in studying discourse especially for lexical cohesion