Abstract
This research was to find out the kinds of grammatical errors made by the students in writing undergraduate theses and to find out the most common error made by the students.
 The research problem is What were the kinds of grammatical error made by the students in writing undergraduate thesis? And What was the most common grammatical error made by the students in writing undergraduate thesis?
 The population of this research was the English students’ undergraduate theses. This research used cluster random sampling technique. The researchers chose 20 backgrounds of undergraduate theses as the sample.
 The result of this research found eight kinds of grammatical error made by the students namely Article, Verb Tense, Subject-Verb Agreement, Singular/Plural, Word Class, Sentence Structure, Spelling, and Punctuation. The most common grammatical error made by the students in writing undergraduate theses is error in Verb Tense with 86 errors (27.65%). The next is Word Class with 55 errors (17.68%), Sentence Structure with 42 errors (13.50%), Article with 37 grammatical errors (11.89%), Punctuation with 28 errors (9%), Singular/Plural with 24 errors (7.71%), Spelling with 21 errors (6.75%), and Subject-Verb Agreement with 18 errors (5.78%).
Highlights
Writing is one of the ways to transfer knowledge and it should be learnt seriously and appropriately
This section deals with the interpretation of the findings of grammatical error made by the students in writing the introduction of undergraduate thesis
The first part discusses the findings of this research deals with the kinds of grammatical error made by the students in writing undergraduate thesis
Summary
Writing is one of the ways to transfer knowledge and it should be learnt seriously and appropriately. Some of them are as follows: Asfihana who conducted a research on the students taking Grammar IV as their course. The Role of Error Analysis in Teaching and Learning of Second and Foreign Language (Education and Linguistic Research, 2015, Vol 1, No 2), p. The Needs of the Students Who Are Taking Grammar (Structures) IV Course at English Department of Tarbiyah Faculty Academic Year of 2012/2013 (Banjarmasin: IAIN Antasari, 2013), p. The Role of Error Analysis in Teaching and Learning of Second and Foreign Language. EDUVELOP Journal of English Education and Development Universitas Sulawesi Barat states that the students lack of grammatical accuracy in their English writing and they are not sure about the grammatical rules that may apply in their English writing. The study concludes that the students highly influenced by the rules of their first language (L1)
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