Abstract
Grammatical errors have been a major issue for decades. Some researchers have analyzed many types of grammatical errors made by foreign language students of English. This paper is one of the descriptions of grammatical errors derived and developed by the English Department of FKIP UMMY Solok in writing their theses. The students’ theses which had been allowed for joining the final comprehensive exam for getting the strata one degree at English Department of FKIP UMMY Solok were analyzed. Ideally, those theses were written by using correct grammar. However, there were still many errors in those theses. The errors found were respectively in form of omission, addition, misformation, and misordering types. This article focuses on the description of the omission of grammatical components written by the students and how it affects their theses quality. Admittedly, these grammatical errors make the theses quality are low and the ideas of the writing are difficult to be caught by the readers because some of the head nouns, subjects, verbs, direct objects, and other components of some sentences in those theses were omitted. It is suggested that the lectures on Grammar and Writing subjects as well as the students’ advisors on academic writings do intensive corrections towards students’ theses.
Highlights
Academic writing is written by scholars for other scholars who involve college students as their community
At Universitas Mahaputra Muhammad Yamin Solok, West Sumatera, Indonesia academic writing in form of a thesis is one of the types of writings produced by the English Department students to promote their ideas in English language teaching and learning activities for getting the sarjana degree
Based on the result of the research, it is found that there are four groups of grammatical errors based on Surface Structure Taxonomy (Dulay, 1982: 150) on those academic writings in form of theses as presented in the following table
Summary
Academic writing is written by scholars for other scholars who involve college students as their community. It is devoted to topics and questions that are interesting to the academic community who write academic writings, especially theses. It should present the readers with the informed arguments. To construct informed argument and to widespread science and technology, college students should use correct grammar in writing their academic writings or theses which imply their grammar ability level. It is found that many grammatical errors that had been made by the students in their writings. Those theses had been agreed by students’
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