AN EXPLORATION OF WRITING ERRORS CONTAINED IN THE STUDENTS’ DESCRIPTIVE WRITING PRODUCT: A STUDY IN LABORATORY HIGH SCHOOL OF TARLAC AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, PHILIPPINE

TRI ANJANI, DEWI AYU (2019) AN EXPLORATION OF WRITING ERRORS CONTAINED IN THE STUDENTS’ DESCRIPTIVE WRITING PRODUCT: A STUDY IN LABORATORY HIGH SCHOOL OF TARLAC AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, PHILIPPINE. S1 thesis, Universitas Mataram.

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Abstract

The aim of this study is to find out the types of errors and the dominant types of errors in the descriptive writing product produced by the students of Laboratory School of Tarlac Agricultural University, Philippines. This thesis used the writing sheets of students‘ writing as the source of data and it was being analyzed by using descriptive qualitative method. Thus, the data were described in the form of words, phrases, and sentences. The result of this study showed that from 77 students‘ descriptive writing product, there were 620 errors found in the four categories: cohesion, grammaticality, mechanics, and dictions. In the cohesion category there were 53 errors found including pronoun reference errors (18), conjunction (18), substitution (5), and parallel structures (12) errors. Meanwhile in grammaticality errors, there were 238 errors revealed, including Subject and Verb Agreement (SAV) in total (89), verb tense (58), preposition (26), articles (21), adjective clause (14), noun (13), part of sentence (10), quantifier (3), gerund (3), and adverb (1). Further, in the mechanics category, there are 285 errors found, including capitalization (89), punctuation including period, comma, apostrophe errors in total 161, miss-spelling (19), word space (11), and paragraph indenting (5). And in the dictions category, there were 44 errors found. Moreover, the result of this study confirmed that there were two dominant errors in the students‘ descriptive writing. The first dominant type or errors is mechanics with a total number 285 errors, and the second dominant errors category encountered by the students is grammaticality with a total number 238 errors.

Item Type: Thesis (S1)
Keywords (Kata Kunci): Writing Errors, Descriptive Writing, Philippines Students
Subjects: L Education > L Education (General)
Divisions: Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan
Depositing User: Wiwin Kartikawati
Date Deposited: 18 Jun 2019 05:00
Last Modified: 18 Jun 2019 05:00
URI: http://eprints.unram.ac.id/id/eprint/13927

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