Students’ Improvements in the Aspect of Mechanics
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S25 PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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with S11, S25’s mechanics score in the first narrative writing task were 3. It was on the level of fair to poor. His score improved in the second
narrative writing task in which he got 4 that was on the level of good to average.
While in the third writing task, he got a very excellent score that was 5.
In the first narrative writing task, some mistakes were found on the use of comma, full stop and capitalization. The comma should be put in the introductory
sentence as “One day, ….” While on the second and third paragraph, the writer
found the use of connector “and” in the beginning of a sentence that should be omitted. He also forgot to put full stop in the end of the sentence in the third
paragraph. In the fourth paragraph, he should put a comma on the beginning of the sentence
, for example: “In the street, …..”. In the fifth paragraph, he put a comma
in the wrong order. He should omit the comma after th e word “when”. He forgot
to capitalize “gingerbread” as the character’s name of the story. While in the last paragraph, he should put a comma after the wo
rd “river”.
In the second narrative writing task, the mistakes were on the use of comma and word spelling. As in the second paragraph, the misspelling was found
on the word “to hot” that should be written “too hot”. Another mistake was also found in the fifth paragraph on the preposition “in to” that should be written
without spacing.
The mechanism in the third narrative writing task was in a good order. He was able to put the right punctuation in the conversation completed with commas.
He put capital letter in the beginning of sentence and put full stop in the end of
sentence.
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