Draft of My Research

Topic : “ Punctuation error in student’s writing “

Research question

1. What kind of error student made in using punctuation mark in narrative text?
2. How is the process of giving feedback to student writing?

Literature Review

1. Theory of punctuation : Definition, types, factors, rules

2. Narrative :concept, types
3. Previous Research :
- THE STUDENTS’ ERROR IN USING PUNCTUATION MARKS IN
NARRATIVE WRITING
The research findings showed that the most common error which most
students made are period 44.3%, comma 42.5%, semicolon 44.16%, apostrophe. 63%,
dan question 0%. It can be concluded that most of the Second Grade Students of SMK
YMJ Ciputat in misselection in using punctuation mark. Thereason why they made
error is because they did not know the limitation and the role of the structure and
context.
- AN ERROR ANALYSIS ON THE USE OF PUNCTUATION MARKS IN
STUDENTS’ WRITING
This study presents some conclusion on several points of views.This study
investigates the students’ errors of using 11 punctuation marks:period, comma,
exclamation, quotation mark, slash, dash, question mark, strip,semicolon, colon and
brackets. From the result of test and discussion, the researcher concludes that: the
result shows that by the second semester students at UMS in using punctuation marks
in sentences made a total 513 errors. The types of punctuation marks that are
frequently used incorrectly by students are exclamation (17%), period (16%) and
addition (15%). The kind of error frequently made by the students is omission (67%).
- AN ERROR ANALYSIS OF THE PUNCTUATION IN STUDENTS’
WRITING
As a result, it was found that there were some factors influencing the students
to make error in using punctuation: (1) Omission some of punctuation marks, (2) Lack
of accuracy, (3) Misuse of using some marks such as question marks and commas
before quotation marks, (4) Misunderstanding of the meaning of the text.

Using test