COHESIVE DEVICES FOUND IN ESSAYS WRITTEN BY THE FOURTH SEMESTER STUDENTS OF ESSAY WRITING CLASS OF ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF MURIA KUDUS UNVERSITY IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2012/2013

Setiawan, Edy. 2013. Cohesive Devices Found in Essays Written by the Fourth Semester Students of Essay Writing Class of Muria Kudus University in Academic Year 2012/2013. Skripsi. English Education Department Teacher Training and Education Faculty Muria Kudus University. Advisors: (1) Dr. Slamet Utomo, M.Pd., (2) Atik Rokhayani, S.Pd, M.Pd. Key word: cohesive devices, essays Writing is considered as the most important and sophisticated skill which is fully mastered by all language learners, even in their native language, no exception in the curriculum of English Education Department, Teacher Training and Education Faculty, the University of Muria Kudus. The writing competence that should be mastered by the students is hierarchically imposed to them, beginning from writing a sentence up to an essay. To create a good essay, the students must surely consider cohesion and coherence to make the text interconnected one to another so that the text can make sense. That is why the term cohesion is totally needed to realize it. The objectives of this research areto find out the cohesive devices used in essays written by the fourth semester students of essay writing class of English Education Department of Muria Kudus University in academic year 2012/2013 and to describe the percentage of cohesive devices found in essays written by the fourth semester students of essay writing class of English Education Department of Muria Kudus University in academic year 2012/2013. Descriptive qualitative research is used as the design of research to reach the objectives of this research. The data of this research is the cohesive devices. Meanwhile, the data source of this research is found in the essays written by the fourth semester students of essay writing class of English and Education Department of Muria Kudus University in academic year 2012/2013. The findings showed that all the types of cohesive devices are found in theessays written by the fourth semester students of essay writing class and the percentages of the cohesive devices found in theessays written by the fourth semester students of essay writing class of English Education Department of Muria Kudus University in academic year 2012/2013 are reference is 40,49% ( anaphoric 23,63%, cataphoric 3,44%, exophoric 13,42%), substitution 0,23%, ellipsis 0,12%, conjunction 29,05%, repetition 23,75%, synonymy 0,41%, hyponymy 1,92%, meronymy 1,75%, antonymy 0,47% and collocation 0,81%. So, the total of grammatical cohesive devices is 69,89% and the total of lexical cohesive devices is 30,11%. Finally, the writer concludes that reference is the dominant type are used by students in employing cohesive devices in order to make a cohesive essay. But, From thirty eight essays the writer still found thirty two essays are not cohesive because of the use of exophoric reference and six essays are cohesive based on theory of Halliday and Cristian (2004). Based on the finding, some recommendations are proposed to English teacherin order touse this research as the reference when they teach writing. Therefore, the students can learn more about cohesive devices. This research can add their knowledge to produce a well-arranged essay. Furthermore, for the further researchers this research can give contribution to inform other researcher who want to conduct about cohesive devices