A GLANCE AT THE COHESIVE DEVICES USED IN THESIS

ABSTRACT WRITING: A GENDER PERSPECTIVE

By Murtaqi, Sonya, Diah, Reza, Ajeng and Dea

OBJECT

1.Types of cohesive devices used by male and female students in their thesis abstracts.

2.The differences and similarities.

THEORY

The main theory that is used in this thesis:

Gender perspective: A view point that divides man and women socially and culturally (Graddol & Swann, 1989; Meyerhoff, 2006; Sumbulah, 2008)

DATA GATHER

Data gather by survey (instrument to collect the data)

The theory according to Cohen and Manlon(1992): “Propose that one of the intentions of conducting a survey is to gather data at a particular point in time to describe the nature of existing conditions.”

CONTINUE…

The total source

36

Females

7 Males

43

Thesis

Abstracts

Descriptions

Cohesive devices in thesisabstracts submitted in 2010written by S-1 male and femalestudents of the study program ofEnglish of the Faculty of CultureStudies of Brawijaya Universitywho took linguistic as their majorprogram or course.

CONTINUE…

B. The range of

the observational

area

C. The risk 10-15%

A. Research

capability in

terms of the

time, fund and

energy

Arikunto (1998): The

subject of a research

can be taken

randomly from the

10-15% or 20-25%

of the population for

estimation:

DATA ANALYSIS

1 2 3

DATA RESULT

Abstract

Thesis

Male students=R0 Cohesive

devices

Female students=R4 Cohesive

devices

51

37

69

87

0 20 40 60 80 100

Male

Female

Chart Title

Lexical Cohesive Grammatical Cohesive

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