Abstract
Writing is a crucial aspect of English language abilities as a foreign language. Writing is an activity that involves creating thoughts and then deciding how to communicate them and created a set of statements and paragraphs that others could read and understand. The aim of this research is to describe the types of errors in writing text and to describe the dominant errors in writing analytical exposition text in the XI Science 1 of SMA Negeri 2 Kotabumi. The researcher found some of the students still got experienced problems of writing texts. The main cause is a lack of understanding of grammar and limited English vocabulary among students. This research used a qualitative research method because the researcher did not use experiments or treatments in research. The subjects for this research is students of XI science 1 of SMA Negeri 2 Kotabumi and the subjects of the research were 29 students. The researcher analyzed using four types of errors: omission, addition, misformation, and misordering. Based on the results obtained, there were 159 errors, which consist of omission is 62, addition is 55, misformation is 31, and misordering is 11 for the most dominant error was omission.
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