ERROR ANALYSIS IN WRITING ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY

The main purpose of this study is to find the most dominant type of errors made by the second year students of english departement of Padang states University in writing argumentative essay. Besides, the writer also gives correction to those errors and hope that the students can prevent committing errors when they write an argumrntative essay in the future. This research was conducted to34-second year students of english departement of Padang state university. The write chose them as subjects of the research because they have already taken writing subject concernig with writing argumentative esssayin the previos semester. This error analysis uses theory proposed by john langan in his book entitled “college Writing Skill eith readings” which was published 1997. this analysis refers to the four bases in writing essay: they are unity, support, corerence, and sentence skill.