Abstract :
This study aimed at describing students’ punctuation errors in writing
descriptive texts. The present researcher used descriptive qualitative method in
this study. It was conducted in the eleveth grade MA Darul Abidin Nw Gerisak
Semanggeleng. There were twenty students of chose randomly to be participants.
The data were collected by asking the participants to write an essay about
descriptive text and asking the participants to fill some questionnaires. The
participants’ work sheets and the questionnaires were analyzed to find out the
common errors in using punctuation. The analysis showed the most dominant
error were (1) errors in using period that was 36,36%; (2) students omitting
comma that was 29,54%; (3) error in using comma that was 25%; (4) students
omitting period that was 4,54%; and (5) students omitted the use of apostrophe
that was 4, 54%.
Key words: Panctuation errors, descriptive texts