Errors in Writing a Thesis Statement Made by Students of English Department Udayana University  

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Mirahayuni, Ni Ketut

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The 62st TEFLIN International Conference: Teaching and Assessing L2 Learners in the 21st Century, Denpasar, 14-16th September 2015, Book 2, page 422-429.
Topik: Thesis Statement; Error Analysis; Essay
Fulltext: hal 422.pdf (15.04MB)

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A good thesis statement for an essay fulfills some requirements. Those requirements are: it is a complete sentence, it is limited to one clear idea, it expresses an attitude or an opinion, and it is a statement that can be argued. Formulating a good thesis statement is still hard to do, especially for the students. The teacher needs to find out the best way to guide them in making a good one. The purpose of this study is to find out the best way in teaching how to write thesis statement for students of English Department, Udayana University and to find out what are the common errors occurs in their thesis statement writing.The theories applied in this research were Error Analysis by Jack. C. Richards (1974) and Thesis Statement by Emily Hutchinson (2013). From data analysis it was found that from four points need to be fulfilled in a thesis statement, most of the students already wrote it in a complete sentence. Their statements already start with a capital letter and end with a period. Those statements already consist of a subject, a predicate, an object or a complement. These components make the statement is a complete thought. But most of them consist of many ideas. The thesis statement written by studentsexpresses opinion or attitude. It categorized an opinion because there are no empirical evidences or facts in the statement. By giving their opinion, those thesis statements can also be argued. The errors made by the students in terms of points in writing thesis statement is mostly because they think that they can propose many ideas in one thesis statement. This can cause too much information in the essay read by the readers. Third conclusion is that some students made grammatical errors which categorized as intralingual errors occur because of incomplete application of rules,faulty generalization and failure to learn conditions under which rules apply

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