Error Analysis on the Student’s Abstract

Abstract

Abstract of the research is the conclusion of the overall research. The sixth semester students from D3 Hospitality study program made some errors in writing their English abstract of the final project. The errors may lead the readers to misinterpretations of the research massages. The purposes of this study are to find out the type of errors made by the students in writing their English abstract and to find out the most frequent type of errors made by the students in writing their English abstract. This study used Descriptive analysis as the method of the study. Ten samples of abstract were analyzed, classified and categorized based on the Surface Structure Taxonomy (SST) which consists of omission, addition, misformation, and misordering.  The findings of the study showed that from ten abstracts, the author found out 235 errors made by the students in their final project abstract. This number is categorized into big number since the error average of every abstract is 23,5 errors.  It is found that there were 80 omission errors (34.04%), 32 Addition errors (13.61%), 84 misformation errors (50.74%), and 39 misordering errors (16.59%). From the result of the analysis, it is known that the most frequent error made by the students was misformation and the least frequent error made the students was addition. From the findings above, the author would suggest the supervisors of the students final project to check up the English abstract, moreover to the students to write better English abstract.