AN ANALYSIS OF COHESIVE DEVICES IN THE HEADLINE NEWS OF THE JAKARTA POST

The study deals with the types of cohesive devices used in Headline News of the Jakarta Post. The objectives of study are to identify and to derive the types of cohesive devices dominantly used in headline news of the Jakarta Post. The data consist of seven articles in headline column from online edition. This research is conducted by using descriptive method. There are seven articles which are analyzed in this study. The findings show that there are 162 references, 4 substitutions, 34 Ellipsis, 349 conjunctions, and 36 lexical cohesion occur in this study. The most dominant types of cohesive devices used is conjunction because the writer would like to connect ideas within the text to make its readers easy to understand. Then the writer also would like to make their news more informative. From those findings, it is concluded that cohesive devices is essential for effective writing and comprehension of written discourse especially, in writing news.