@phdthesis{repository14620,
          school = {Universitas Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka},
            year = {2020},
           title = {An Error Analysis on Descriptive Writng Made by The Tenth Grade Students of SMK Bina Karya Utama JAKARTA in the First Semester of The 2019/2020 Academic Year},
        abstract = {The objective of the research was to find the empirical evidence of the most typical errors, and the sources of errors which were made by the tenth grade students of SMK Bina Karya Utama Jakarta. The population of the research was the tenth grade students of SMK Bina Karya Utama Jakarta. It consisted of 72 students, but when the writer took the data, there were only 30 students that present in the class. The writer used a purposive cluster sampling technique to get thesamples. The method employed in this research was a descriptive analysis. The writer administered a guided task on descriptive writing. The students wrote 3 paragraphs based on the outline given by the writer. To distinguish errors and mistakes, the writer returned the writings that have been marked to the students to be revised. The writer asked the students do the same test on different day.
The research showed that the most typical errors done by the students were in capitalization with 131 or 19.06\%, add word with 123 or 17.20\%, word choice with 113 or 16.44\%, omit a word with 73 or 10.62\%, verb tense with 56 or 8.15\%,
word order with 36 or 5.24\%, article with 33 or 4.80\%, word form with 25 or3.63\%, and meaning not clear with 25 or 3.63\%. The smallest typical errors done by the students were in run on sentence with 7 or 1.01\%, singular-plural with 12 or 1.74\%, incomplete sentence with 13 or 1.89 \%, punctuation with 16 or 2.32\%, and spelling with 24 or 3.49\%.},
             url = {http://repository.uhamka.ac.id/id/eprint/14620/},
          author = {Lina, Siti Arifah and Martriwati, Martriwati and Aminah, Siti}
}