Assessing Grammatical Cohesive Devices in the Findings and Discussion of Research Articles by Graduate Students

Writing research articles is a 'tradition' conducted by students in every learning activity higher education. This study aimed to analyze the use of grammatical cohesive devices found findings and discussion written graduate English Education. Discourse analysis was employed as design descriptive qualitative approach utilized elaborate analysis. Qualitative data form text consisting sentences clauses containing cohesion were primary this research. The obtained through observation documentation conducting preliminary study, collecting articles, verifying data. analyzed identifying, classifying, describing, drawing conclusions. results showed that all four types articles. most dominant device reference conjunction with total 2367 955 respectively. There an apparent margin gap between dominantly used least there only 5 occurrences substitution 12 ellipsis. In conclusion, preferred two while neglecting utilization other types. Moreover, will hopefully provide suggestions for on how additional guides teachers teaching compose well-organized paper.