Annisa, Khaula (2021) An analysis on mechanical aspects of writing skill of the eleventh graders of the SMA Negeri 1 Sekampung in The Academic Year of 2020/2021. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Metro.

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Abstract

The objectives of this research are to find out the most difficult type of mechanical aspects in students‘ writing skill and to analyze the students‘ writing problem in using mechanical aspects in their writing skill. The researcher analyzed those phenomenon based on the consideration of mechanical aspects in students‘ writing skill at the eleventh grader at SMA Negeri 1 Sekampung investigated in the process of pre-survey. Therefore, it is hoped that this research is beneficial to in illustrate the phenomenon of mechanical aspects in students‘ writing skill.

The research method was qualitative research in the form of case study carried out through students‘ writing document. The primary sources are the students‘ writing document written by 20 students of the eleventh graders at SMA Negeri 1 Sekampung, particularly the students in class of science one. Techniques of collecting data that the researcher used were observation, documentation, and interview. Observation was conducted to know the most difficult type of mechanical aspects in students‘ writing skill. The interview was conducted to investigate the causes of students‘ problems in using mechanical aspects in their writing skill.

Based on the first research question is about the students‘ problems in using mechanical aspects in their writing skill, the researcher concluded that the causes of the students‘ writing problems in using mechanical aspects in their writing skill were caused by spelling, punctuation, and capitalization. In the spelling, the students‘ problem caused lack of English vocabulary mastery. Students also confused because the pronunciation and written of words is different, so it makes the students confuse and wrong in spelling of the words. Moreover, in punctuation, the students‘ problems caused because students still confused to make a sentence with the punctuation well, like using a comma and forget to use full stop in the end of the sentence. Besides, in the capitalization, the students‘ problem are frequently students still confused to used capitalize in a specific word, such as for the name of people, place, brand, and others. Hence, the researcher concludes that the students have the problems in using mechanical aspects in writing skill, particularly in spelling.

Furthermore, the second research question is about the most difficult types of mechanical aspects that is used the students in writing skill, the researcher concluded that the most difficult type of mechanical aspects in students‘ writing skill is spelling. It was because the researcher was found that there were 93 items (42%) total spelling errors that conducted the students in writing and it was the highest percentage than punctuation and capitalization. It was followed by capitalization error which had percentage 30%. Then, the lowest one was punctuation with the percentage 28%.

Keyword: mechanical aspects, spelling, writing skill

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