An Analysis of Text Organization and Grammatical Errors in Writing English Descriptive Text for Students in PKBM Eif Course

Abstract

The objective of this research was to analyze the text organization and grammatical errors in descriptive writing. This research used qualitative method. The instruments used were writing test and interview with the tutor. Data analysis techniques used were data reduction, display, drawing and verifying conclusion. The researchers are guided by the generic structures of descriptive text for analyzing the text organization. To analyze the grammatical errors, the researchers used the Surface Strategy Taxonomy. The results showed that most students have been able to write the identification part well, but there was one student who did not write this part correctly. The description section showed that only about 9 (39%) of students were able to structure the description from general to specific, according to the rules of descriptive text. However, 14 (61%) of students wrote the description section in an unorganized manner. Some students also wrote incomplete descriptions, omitting important elements such as physical characteristics or unique attributes. The results of grammatical errors analysis showed that misformation error is the most common type of error which reaches 57.14%. Omission error occupies the second position at 23.9%, addition error at 12.03%, and the lowest is misordering error at 6.77%.