Mustika, Dita (2016) An Errors Analysis of Using Passive Voice on The Students' Undergraduate Theses at State Islamic College (STAIN) of Jurai Siwo Metro. Undergraduate thesis, STAIN Jurai Siwo Metro.

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Abstract

Scientific writing is one of English for Specific Purposes. There are many requirements needed. One of highlighted requirements which should be seriously paid attention is in the introduction chapter because it is not an easy thing for some scientific writers. The primary goal of this research is to know what passive voice errors are in the introduction chapter of the students undergraduate theses at State Islamic College ofJurai Siwo Metro in the Academic years of 2014/2015.

A qualitative descriptive was used to approach the data. The writer took 30 introduction chapters as his purposive sample. The data were collected by observation and documentation. Moreover, the researcher observed them by finding the passive voice error. In addition, the mistakes were categorized into five types namely wrong in structures, meaning, omission an agent, diction and tenses. The result of analysis of passive voice errors was showed that there were 45 items (35%) of structure errors, 18 items (14%) of meaning errors, 16 items (12%) of omission of agent errors, 22 items (17%) of diction errors, and 28 items (22%) tenses errors.

In conclusion, there are still many passive voice errors in the introduction chapter of students' undergraduate theses at STAIN Jurai Siwo Metro. The passive voice errors are commonly related to structure, meaning, omission an agent, diction, and tenses.

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