{"title":"THEME AND THEMATIC PROGRESSION OF UNDERGRADUATE THESES","authors":"Hamdan Zainu Mubarak","doi":"10.31980/eealjournal.v4i1.1102","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This research aimed to analyze the theme and the thematic progression in undergraduate students’ theses. To achieve these aims, a qualitative research embracing case study was chosen. The participants of this research were six undergraduate students from academic year 2016, 2017, and 2018 in one of colleges in Garut. The data, students’ theses, were collected by techniques of document study based on theses theme (developing writing skill). The theory of theme by Butt et al (2000) and thematic progression by Bloor and Bloor (2004) was used to analyze the data. The result revealed that undergraduate students mostly used unmarked topical theme and reiteration pattern. It meant that the undergraduate students had tried to persuade the readers to accept their point of view and they had tried to make their text focus by repeating the same element as a theme.","PeriodicalId":119882,"journal":{"name":"English Education and Applied Linguistics Journal (EEAL Journal)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"English Education and Applied Linguistics Journal (EEAL Journal)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.31980/eealjournal.v4i1.1102","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This research aimed to analyze the theme and the thematic progression in undergraduate students’ theses. To achieve these aims, a qualitative research embracing case study was chosen. The participants of this research were six undergraduate students from academic year 2016, 2017, and 2018 in one of colleges in Garut. The data, students’ theses, were collected by techniques of document study based on theses theme (developing writing skill). The theory of theme by Butt et al (2000) and thematic progression by Bloor and Bloor (2004) was used to analyze the data. The result revealed that undergraduate students mostly used unmarked topical theme and reiteration pattern. It meant that the undergraduate students had tried to persuade the readers to accept their point of view and they had tried to make their text focus by repeating the same element as a theme.
本研究旨在分析大学生论文的主题与主题进阶。为了实现这些目标,选择了一种包含案例研究的定性研究。本研究的参与者是加鲁特一所大学2016、2017和2018学年的六名本科生。采用文献研究法,围绕论文主题(培养写作技巧)收集学生论文资料。使用Butt et al .(2000)的主位理论和Bloor and Bloor(2004)的主位推进理论对数据进行分析。结果显示,大学生使用无标记主题和重复模式较多。这意味着本科生试图说服读者接受他们的观点,他们试图通过重复相同的元素作为一个主题来使他们的文章集中。