This study is about an analysis of grammatical and mechanical errors made by the students across the three levels of writing ability: high, average, and low. The grammatical and mechanical aspects analyzed were subject-verb agreement, sentence fragment, conjunction, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. The present study aimed to find out the most common grammatical and mechanical errors and to identify the percentage of each error found in the essays. Students’ essays taken from their English writing quiz were collected as the data since they might contain grammatical and mechanical errors. This study employed textual analysis and was supported by simple calculation to determine the frequency of each error found. The data were analyzed by identifying the errors, explaining why the errors are incorrect and writing the proper corrections, and evaluating the errors to get the percentage of each error found. The results showed that the most common grammatical error found is the use of conjunction, that is around 20.6%, and the most common mechanical error found is punctuation by around 21.6%.
This paper presents the results of the study on analyzing the persuasive language used in advertisements in magazines. The aim of this study is to identify the types of persuasive language used in advertisements in Forbes magazine and to analyze the dominant types of persuasive language found in the advertisements. Therefore, the qualitative data were collected from a recognized magazine entitled “Forbes”. The data were analyzed based on the types of persuasive language found by Kannan & Tyagi (2013). The results show that there are 10 types of persuasive languages used in the advertisements in Forbes magazine: long noun phrases, short sentences, avoidance of negative, use of imperatives, weasel words and repetition, hyperbole, simple and colloquial language, alliteration, and syntactic parallelism. Among the 10 persuasive language types, the most dominant one is long noun phrases. The implication of the study may be used to EFL learning and teaching and translation persuasive languages.
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