The Mechanics Accuracy of Students’ Writing

Abstract

<span>In writing courses, the students tend to be more aware of technical errors in writing including the mechanics. Conversely, they tend to focus more on the idea or content of their writing when they produce papers to fulfill the assignment of non-writing courses. Whereas, the punctuation errors and misspelled words will make the meaning of the sentence ambiguous. This study aims to find out the degree of mechanics accuracy of students’ writings and what kind of mechanics mistakes mostly produced. The mechanics that were analyzed include punctuation, capitalization, spelling, italicization, and numbering of 65 writing assignments of three non-writing courses. The method used in this study was content analysis. The result of this study revealed that there were number of mechanics mistakes in students writing assignments, but those mistakes did not greatly affect readers’ understanding. The punctuation using of students’ writing assignments was 41% accurate; the capitalization using was 82% accurate; the spelling using was 83% accurate; the italicization using was 96% accurate; and the numbering using was 98% accurate.</span>

Arab EFL Students’ and Instructors’ Perceptions of Errors in Mechanics in Second Language Paragraph Writing

“…Their instructors also agreed with these beliefs. Nazim and Mohammad (2022), Sandrawati andJurianto (2021), andYuliawati (2021) also discovered that the highest number of punctuation mistakes made by EFL learners were related to the use of commas and the absence of periods in their writings.…”

“…Ahmed (2021) noticed 33% of mechanical errors in the pilot test of the study. Yuliawati (2021) and Darmawan (2023) exclusively studied mechanical errors in detail in their studies. Yuliawati (2021) reported that after analyzing 65 writing assignments from three nonwriting courses, participants' mistakes were the most in punctuation and the least in numbering.…”

“…Yuliawati (2021) and Darmawan (2023) exclusively studied mechanical errors in detail in their studies. Yuliawati (2021) reported that after analyzing 65 writing assignments from three nonwriting courses, participants' mistakes were the most in punctuation and the least in numbering. Likewise, Darmawan (2023) reported that in the abstracts of academic writing, 16 mechanical errors were found.…”

Analyzing Writing of Producing Ideas and Using Mechanics through Showing Short Videos

“…The idea should be structured and connected which can make writing understandable, thus students should have many vocabularies and understand the structure of the sentences (Sholikhatun, 2022). The structure of idea related to the mechanics of writing such as capitalization, punctuation and spelling (Yuliawati, 2021;Maharani & Sholikhatun, 2022). These elements of mechanics can influence the producing text of writing, in case of how people use it correctly.…”

Error Analysis of Simple Present Tense Using in Students' Descriptive Writing

“…In order to produce a good writing, students should pay a certain amount of commitment, practice, and hardwork (Yuliawati, 2021) because there are some components in writing that must be concerned such as grammar, vocabulary, and mechanics. Grammar is a theory of language of how language is put together and how it works (Gerot & Peter, 1995).…”