Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Education Social Sciences and Humanities (ICESSHum 2019)

Coherence in Bachelor Degree Theses in a Public University

Authors
Syarifuddin Dollah, Amirullah Abduh
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Syarifuddin Dollah
Available Online August 2019.
DOI
10.2991/icesshum-19.2019.154How to use a DOI?
Keywords
coherence, academic writing, bachelor degree thesis, public university, Indonesia
Abstract

There has been a lot of studies of coherence in academic writing. Many previous studies have focused on coherence in research articles, newspapers, books, and literary works. There is not much research on coherence in undergraduate student thesis. This study aims to respond to the knowledge gap. This aims to identify the coherence in bachelor thesis writing in English department of a public university. The case study used 171 of students’ thesis who graduated from 2016 to 2018. The findings of the study are that coherence becomes one of the main problems in thesis writing especially lack of consistency, low quality, logical orders, and organization of writing. Therefore, the findings of the research have significant pedagogical implications for lecturers, researchers, and students. It is suggested that students need be aware of thesis guidelines, the standard quality of academic writing, attend academic writing training, regular meetings with thesis supervisors, and the writing practice. It also informs thesis supervisors to critically evaluate supervision management and procedures.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Education Social Sciences and Humanities (ICESSHum 2019)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
August 2019
ISBN
10.2991/icesshum-19.2019.154
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/icesshum-19.2019.154How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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