Grammatical Errors in Writing Abstract of Skripsi Made by English Department Students at UMSU

Abstract

This study deals with Grammatical Errors in Writing Abstract of Skripsi Made by English Department Students at UMSU . The objectives of this study are to investigate the types of grammatical errors and to describe how the errors are occurred in writing abstract of skripsi made by English department students at UMSU. This study was conducted by applying descriptive qualitative design. The source of data were taken from students’ abstract of skripsi made by English department students at UMSU. The data were analyzed by by using documentary technique of Miles Huberman and Saldana (2014). It was consisted of three steps were data collection, data condensation, data display, and conclusion drawing or verification.The findings of this study were found there were 50 sentences which having grammatical errors from the 15 skripsi. Those errors were word form, verb tense, word order, and run on sentence. From these type of errors, word form were 3, verb tense were 41, word order was 1 and run on sentence were 5. There were errors occurred in abstract, especially in arranged simple past tense ungrammatically and using singular and plural incorrectly. This researcher suggests the next researcher develop this study by using different object which are not in this study. It could be in writing each genre, writing applicaion letter or other wriing sructure.