AN ANALYSIS OF SENTENCE FRAGMENTS IN ESSAY WRITING AT FIFTH SEMESTER 2022/2023 OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF UIN FAS BENGKULU

KASEMA, PERLA MEI (2022) AN ANALYSIS OF SENTENCE FRAGMENTS IN ESSAY WRITING AT FIFTH SEMESTER 2022/2023 OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF UIN FAS BENGKULU. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Fatmawati Sukarno Bengkulu.

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Abstract

Writing skill is essential, it is also a challenging talent for students to learn. Students still make errors sentence in writing and Sentence Fragment is one of errors sentence. Thus, identifying errors in a student's writing might be crucial. Because it is possible to assess students' language learning progress using these errors as a benchmark. The purpose of this study was to discover what types of sentence fragments appear in essay writing, what types of sentence fragments appear the most dominant, and to to find out why students can create sentence fragments in their essay writing. This study uses a qualitative descriptive research methodology. The research object was in the form of argumentative essays taken from fifth semester students in class A, with a total of 19 students at UIN FAS Bengkulu. Data collection techniques were carried out through document analysis and interviews which were analyzed with collection of data, Identification of errors, classification of errors, and quantification of errors. Based on the findings of document analysis, the researcher found that four kinds of sentence fragments appeared in essay writing, namely, the absence of subject, the absence of verb, the absence of both subject and verb, and dependent clause fragment. Thus, the researcher also found that the most dominant type of sentence fragment in essay writing was the dependent clause fragment. In addition, the results of the interviews showed that the cause of sentence fragments in essay writing was that students still did not understand grammar and correct sentence structure

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