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AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ ERROR IN USING PUNCTUATION AT INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPH OF ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY ON FOURTH SEMESTER OF ENGLISH TEACHING LEARNING PROGRAM IAIN MADURA
Keywords : Punctuation, Introductory Paragraph, Argumentative Essay
In writing punctuation is very important because punctuation help the written of the author logical and readable. By using good punctuation that make the reader easier to read and comprehend the writer’s ideas. To practice the understanding about punctuation is by write some paragraphs. The students can write an argumentative essay. In argumentative essay the students can write anything based on their opinion. In fact any students still make an error when they write an essay. Although their teacher give them some material about how to write a good essay with good punctuation, but any students still get confused which appropriate punctuation mark that will they use on their essay and also any students do not understand well about the material of punctuation itself. That why the teacher should give opportunity for the students to always practice to improve their ability in writing essay with good punctuation.
There are two research focuses in this research, they are; What types of punctuation errors do by the D class students of fourth semester of English Teaching Learning Program IAIN Madura in their essay and what factors make the D class students of fourth semester of English Teaching Learning Program IAIN Madura produce an error of punctuation in their writing essay.
This researcher designed this research into a qualitative approach. In collecting the data, the researcher use two instruments such; documentation and interview. The researcher use represent and report qualitative findings, interpret the finding and validate the accuracy of the finding to analyze the data. Then, the researcher also use member checking in checking the validity of the data.
The result of this research which was found by the researcher that the students produce error in three punctuations mark such as in using comma, period and colon. The error that do by them such as incorrect position of comma, incorrect position of period, omission of comma and omission of period. The factors of students produce an errors in using punctuation at introductory paragraph of argumentative essay there are two categories such as factors of fatigue and lack of attention and error that ensue by lack of knowledge about the language principle.
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