Skripsi

An analysis in the use of mechanics in the second semester students\' writing in Universitas Negeri Malang / Gita Aulia

Abstrak
ABSTRACT Aulia Gita. 2017. An Analysis in the Use of Mechanics in the Second Semester Students Writing in Universitas Negeri Malang. Undergraduate Thesis Department of English Faculty of Letters Universitas Negeri Malang. Advisors (I) Dr. Enny Irawati M.Pd. (II) Prof. Bambang Yudi Cahyono M.Pd. M.A. Ph.D. Keywords writing mechanics punctuation Paragraph Writing Learning English requires all the skills commonly used in learning a language namely listening speaking reading and writing. However many students regard writing as a difficult skill to learn and practice. Second semester students of the Department of English in Universitas Negeri Malang take Paragraph Writing course as one of the required courses. Despite the fact that writing mechanics have been taught to students since their early school years the second semester students still somehow make a lot of mechanical mistakes in their writing. Reflecting upon that problem a study was conducted to know the kinds of mechanical mistakes that the students made during their writing process and how often they made the same mistakes. This study used exploratory sequential mixed methods design. There were 23 students involved in this study. The data were obtained by collecting their written products on the themes provided. Each student submitted two paragraphs one paragraph for one theme. The themes were about their family and a fable. The data were analyzed by using the tabulation form which contained the types of mechanics to group the mechanical mistakes found in the students written products. Analysis of the data resulted in the finding of 223 mistakes. The mistakes belonged to mistakes in spelling capitalization numbers the hyphen and punctuations. The most frequent type of mistakes found is those in the use of the comma with 74 mistakes while the least frequent is those in the use of the ellipsis mark and the question mark both in which occurred 1 time. Knowledge about writing mechanics is very important to master and remember as plenty of mechanical errors and mistakes that deeply affect sentence meaning could be made if not careful. It is suggested for the students to be more motivated and serious in learning and writing mechanically correct texts and for the teachers in schools to encourage and emphasize more in teaching students how to apply the correct mechanics in their writing. For English lecturers it is advised to encourage their students to submit hand-written texts instead of typing them. For future researchers this research could be used as a reference to conduct similar studies in writing mechanics.

Informasi Detail

DDC

Rs 808.042 AUL a

Prodi

Universitas Negeri Malang. Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris, 2018.

Deskripsi Fisik

xi, 96 lembar : il. , tab. ; 30 cm

Bahasa

No Reg

03547/KI/18

Edisi

Skripsi (Sarjana)--Universitas Negeri Malang, 2018

Subjek

1. BAHASA INGGRIS - MENULIS
2. ENGLISH LANGUAGE - WRITING

Pembimbing

1. Enny Irawati ; 2. Bambang Y. Cahyono

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