write, there are some errors appear, they are, for instance, the error in tenses. The error is shown as follows:
“Last week Young Red Cross win as a favorite champion in SDB Sasih Darma Bakti”
It should be: “Last week Young Red Cross won as a favorite champion in SDB
Sasih Darma Bakti”. Observing the students’ errors is the way for the writer to achieve her
research which is done at “MAN 2 Kota Bogor”. The research aims to know the types and the most errors happened at the XI year students of “MAN 2
Kota Bogor”. This research is summarized on the “skripsi” titled “The Error Analysis on Students’ Writing”.
B. The Focus of Study
This study focuses on XI year student of “MAN 2 Kota Bogor” in first semester 2007-2008 academic years. To make the description of this study
deeper, the problem will be limited in error analysis which is made by the students in paragraph writing.
C. The Research Questions
Based on the background and focus of the study, the writer plans to do an error analysis on students’ descriptive writing. The questions can be stated
as follows: 1.
What types of errors do the students make in writing? 2.
What is the most dominated error on students’ writing?
D. The Significance of Study
This finding result of this study are expected to provide useful information on students’ errors which in turn helps teachers to correct
students’ errors and also improve the effectiveness of their teaching.
By analyzing the student’s errors in writing, the writer wishes the result of the research would be advantageous for the readers who like writing
in order they can anticipate errors in their writing and as motivation for the students to make good writing and to know the importance of writing in
language learning process, and used as inputs for the writer to identify what part of the language programs are found difficult by the students.
E. The Organization of Writing
This paper is divided into five chapters, namely the first chapter is the presentation of introduction, including the background of study, the focus of
study, the research question, the significance of study, and the organization of writing.
The second chapter is theoretical framework. It will be divided into three division chapters. The first is error; it includes discussing about the error
definition, error analysis, types of error, source of error, and some error in students’ paragraph writing. The second describes writing. It involves the
definition of writing, the writing sentence, and the types of sentence. The third chapter is the profile of “MAN 2 Kota Bogor”, it includes discussing about the
history, the geographical position, the vision and mission, the curriculum and method of English teaching learning, the condition, and the activities.
The forth chapter is about the research methodology and findings. It consists of the purpose of the research, the place and time of research, the
technique of sample taking, the technique of data collecting, the technique of data analysis. In research finding, it includes data description, data analysis,
and data interpretation. The last chapter contains the conclusion of the study and some
suggestion.
CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
