ANALISIS KESALAHAN MENULIS TANDA BACA PADA KARANGAN DESKRIPSI KELAS IV MI HUDAATUL UMAM KABUPATEN TANGERANG

This study aims to determine punctuation writing mistakes that are often made by students in writing description essays at MI Hudaatul Umam. The method used in this study is a descriptive qualitative method, which is a method that involves researchers directly observing the object being studied. The results of this study were found in writing capital letters, with a percentage of 56.32%. The error is seen at the beginning of sentences, both the beginning of the sentence and the turn of the sentence. This indication often occurs due to the familiarity of the students themselves, also students are not trained to write capital letters at the beginning of words. In punctuation, the most errors are in the error of omitting periods at the end of sentences that are not question or exclamation sentences with a percentage of 42.78%. The indication that causes this error to occur is the lack of accuracy of students in placing periods at the end of sentences, also students do not understand the rules of punctuation placement.