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1. Writing
In this study, writing is a method of expressing ideas about any subject content; it appears in classrooms everywhere and, therefore, must be the concern
of every teacher Tiedt, 1989. Writing is one kind of productive skill in English language acquisition. Maggie 2003 defined writing as both a process and a
product. In writing, there is a process to make a writing composition. The processes are stated chronologically: imagining- organizing- drafting- editing-
reading and proofreading. Writing has a process to follow in order to obtain the best result. Besides a
process, writing is also a product. This is called similar to that fact because writing skill is a productive skill and as a result, writing has a result in form of a
writing composition. The researcher tended to assume that writing is a product, because in this research, the research samples were the SMP Pangudi Luhur
Yogyakarta seventh grade students‟ descriptive texts. In this research, the researcher only examined 55 students‟ descriptive texts in order to identify the
errors and provide feedback for the teacher.
2. Descriptive Text
In this study, the term descriptive text is understood as a kind of text that enables SMP Pangudi Luhur Yogyakarta seventh grade to visualize a person with
all appropriate senses and describe the person‟s personality. McMurrey 1983: 239 points out that description is a way to enable the reader to visualize a person,
place or things with some appropriate senses included. In this study, descriptive
9 texts enabled the students to visualize famous characters they were interested in.
Therefore, the students were expected to be able to explore more their writing compositions through their descriptive texts. Other definition of descriptive text
by Gerot, L. and Wignell, P. 1994 as cited by Mursyid n.d. is that descriptive text is a kind of text which has a purpose to give information. The context of this
text is the description of particular thing, animal, person or others. The social function of descriptive text is to describe particular person, place or thing.
Descriptive text also has its generic structure as stated by Hammond 1992 as cited by Mursyid n.d.. There are two main parts of the generic
structure: Identification and Description. In identification, the phenomenon to be described is identified and in description, the phenomenon is described by parts,
qualities, characteristics and etc. In this research, the researcher descriptive text about people‟s appearance and character. According to Berg 2011, descriptive
texts can indicate who is in the picture. Descriptive texts actually can provide better face labeling in describing person. Berg 2011 also stated that descriptive
texts can indicate appearance characteristics. Descriptive texts can discover visual attributes. Through descriptive, SMP Pangudi Luhur seventh grade students were
expected to be able describe a person in details. This describing person‟s appearance and character material had been taught in the odd semester of
academic year 2012-2013. In the even semester, the researcher still attempted to conduct a research related to descriptive texts and Error Analysis as the teacher
intended to check students‟ progress before going on describing places topic.
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3. Error Analysis
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