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An Analysis Of Students' Errors In Writing Argumentative Text.
Argumentative text is a text to express the writer argument from two sides (arguments for
and against) and it is supported by facts or research. Some college students still make
error in writing argumentative text. This paper entitles “An Analysis of Students’ Errors
on Writing Argumentative Text” the aim of this research is to find out kind of errors that
made by the students in writing argumentative text. This research is conducted to the
fourth semester students of English Education Study Program, Faculty of Teacher
Training and Education Sciences, Pakuan University. There is one class chosen and
numbers of the students is 27 students. Th writer uses purposive sampling technique in
conducting this research and takes five students who made many errors inwriting
argumentative text. The writer uses analysis method to classify and describe students’
error in writing argumentative text. The data are gained by analyzing students’ work in
writing argumentative text. It can be concluded that the kind of errors found are
misformation with 127 errors (44%). The second position is omission with 95 errors
(33%), then, additions with 57 errors (20%) and the last position is misordering with 9
errors (3%).
Keywords: Argumentative text, Error Analysis.
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