Cohesion Of Abstracts Used In Skripsi Of English Education Department Of Muria Kudus University

The development of curriculum from year to year brings about some modifications in many aspects. The development of curriculum also involves the development of skripsi written by students. When a new curriculum is released, students start competing to write skripsi based on the new curriculum. This paper was conducted to see some linguistics aspects of the abstract written in students’ skripsi of English Education department of University of Muria Kudus. The abstracts were chosen as the study object for completing the Sarjana Program in English education. The English lecturers have complained that the abstracts are very hard for them to understand. The problem statements to which I wanted to find are: 1/ What kinds of grammatical and lexical cohesive devices are found in abstracts used in the students’ skripsi of English Education Department of Muria Kudus University?., 2/ To what degree are those abstracts cohesive? The paper was based on Halliday and Hasan’s theory of cohesion of reading text. The analysis is based on some criteria, that is, the abstracts may have; (1) co-referential cohesive ties (2) co-classification cohesive ties, (3) coextension cohesive ties. Besides, the abstracts are also analyzed in terms of their level of cohesiveness