OMISSION IN WRITING UNDERGRADUATE THESIS PROPOSALS

Abstract

This writing is a part of research related to grammatical errors committed by the last semester students of the English Study Program of Universitas Nusa Cendana in writing their undergraduate thesis proposal. Using Surface Strategy Taxonomy, the students' grammatical errors are analyzed. Since most errors found in students' writing fall into Omission errors, this writing will be focused on elaborating the errors only. The result shows that in writing the undergraduate thesis proposals, the
students tend to eliminate important elements in sentences such as to be (am/is/are), article (a, an, the), ‘s as a plural marker, the suffix –s as a possessive marker), the suffix –s/es on the verb of the third singular person of present tense, preposition, the suffix –ing, past marker (the suffix –ed), subject of the sentence and to in to infinitives.

keywords: Omission, Grammatical Error, Undergraduate Thesis, Proposal