Using Grammatical Cohesion in the Students’ Final Project Proposal

(A Case Study in UIN Walisongo Semarang in Academic Year 2019/2020)

Abstract

The practice of grammatical cohesion is broadly significant to be procedurally employed for the students to accomplish academic writing. This scientific study informed how the grammatical cohesion in the texts applied to show the unity of the texts. This study was qualitatively designed to inform the units of grammatical cohesion which were realized in a single text of students’ manuscripts. The researcher served the documentation sheet as the principal instrument to classify the type of grammatical cohesion. The data analysis was taken from 10 manuscripts of the English students in UIN Walisongo in Academic Year 2019/2020. The findings then showed that the most usage of grammatical cohesion was grammatical conjunction with 238 occurrences, whereas the grammatical reference was 235 times; the grammatical ellipsis was 13 times, while the grammatical substitution was only 6 times. This study influenced students’ writing competence where they were advantaged to organize the final manuscript cohesively besides the teaching and learning practice