Writing is an important skill in English language learning. In writing, the
students usually make many mistakes. Such as in writing note taking, usually the
students make mistake in spelling, grammar and punctuation. Therefore, the
researcher is interested to know the common errors in writing note taking made by
the seventh semester students at English Department of UIN Antasari Academic
Year 2017/ 2018.
This research is conducted with two research questions. They are: (1) what
are the errors in writing note taking made by the seventh semester of Englisgh
Department at Antasari State Islamic University Academic year 2017/ 2018; and
(2 ) what is the most students’ common error in writing note taking made by the
seventh semester of English Department at Antasari State Islamic University
Academic Year 2016/ 2017.
The population of the research was 112 students of the seventh semester
students of English Department at UIN Antasari with the sample is 25 respondents
or 20 % from population. The researcher used descriptive qualitative method in
this research. Written test and documentary are used as the instruments for
collecting the data. After the data gathered, the data then analyzed by
descriptively and qualitatively.
The result of the research indicates that students make errors in spelling,
grammar and punctuation. While, the most common error is in spelling. It
required 88 %. It is followed by grammar with 84%. Punctuation is 40 %. The
total number of error is 142 errors. It is divided with 79 errors for spelling, 52
errors for grammar and 11 errors for punctuation.