This research aimed to know about writing mistakes involving capital and italic letters in university students' essay, especially capital and italic letters. The method of this research was qualitative descriptive. The data collected for this research consisted of writing mistakes involving capital and italic letters in university students' essay. The technique of data analysis adopted in this study was a constant comparison. This study found that of 62 essay students analyzed, there were 132 capital letter writing mistakes that were divided into seven types: 1) incorrect capitalization in the first letter of sentences; 2) in writing someone's name; 3) in writing the name of a lesson; 4) in writing title; 5) in the middle of sentences; 6) in writing abbreviation and acronym; and 7) in writing words that stand for abbreviation. Meanwhile, in italic writing, mistakes occurred only when students were writing foreign terms that remain written with an upright letter. This numbered to 123 mistakes. The results of this analysis indicated that there were still many common mistakes made by students, so in the future, there should be a follow-up so that similar mistakes do not happen anymore.

The literacy movement is being carried out by the government nationally in various circles ranging from families, schools and communities. It is also entitled to be felt by all people including street children. For street children literacy culture also needs to be grown because their literacy is still low. This effort was carried out by increasing literacy in "Lotus" street children in the Social Barracks of Demaan Village, Kudus Regency, Central Java. Lack of interest in learning because teaching materials in schools are not easy for them to digest, making them less desirable and a burden on them. Teaching materials that are made thematically presented in the form of reading about local wisdom around them are expected to improve their literacy culture. The PKM is carried out by mentoring educational programs in the form of tutoring and training in improving literacy. In mentoring using teaching materials that have been developed by applying several methods. Like learning methods based on study groups according to age with approaches such as scientific, thematic, tutorial, drill and lecture. while the implementation of literacy training delivered good reading and writing methods. From this PKM activity, it was found that the level of enthusiasm of attendance was very high %80%, literacy ability had experienced an increase of> 10% with a significant.

The background of this research is that teachers have not used innovative learning media in social studies learning which still tends to be conventional. Critical thinking ability is less motivated due to not using learning media as a facility. The purpose of this study was to analyze the influence of pictorial story media on critical thinking skills. This type of research is an experiment with a pre-test post-test control design. The total population was 40 class 4 students of SDN 1 Pendem. The sample was taken randomly with a significant amount of 5% to�obtain 36 students. The data collection used was a critical ability test as the main data, interviews, and documentation as supporting data. The pre-test test instrument includes validity, reliability, discriminating power, and level of difficulty. The data were tested with the normality test, because the data were obtained with a normal distribution, the t-test was tested. The test results obtained t count => - t table or 9.668 => -2.030. It can be concluded has a significant effect on the use of pictorial media stories on critical thinking skills.

AbstrakKenaikan pangkat dan golongan bagi Guru PNS menjadi hal yang penting, namun yang harus dilakukan diantaranya adanya publikasi kegiatan ilmiah sebagaimana Permen PAN dan Reformasi Birokrasi Nomor 16 Tahun 2009. Bentuk publikasi ilmiah dapat berasal dari penelitian action research dan eksperimen. Pengetahuan Guru SD tentang metodologi penelitian action research dan penelitian eksperimen serta penulisan artikel ilmiah pada jurnal yang masih minim menjadi masalah tersendiri bagi guru tersebut. Pengabdian Masyarakat tersebut bekerja sama dengan kelompok guru di kecamatan Genuk kota Semarang Provinsi Jawa Tengah. Pelaksanaan pengabdian masayarakat, dalam bentuk kegiatan pelatihan, workshop, pendampingan penelitian dan menyusun artikel jurnal. Artikel jurnal dari peserta pengabdian yang sudah memenuhi syarat maka akan berkesempatan untuk di-publish pada jurnal pendidikan dasar PGSD UNISSULA. Pelaksanaan pengabdian dilakukan dengan mitra kelompok guru di kecamatan Genuk, namun pada pelaksanaannya tim pengabdian disarankan langsung terjun ke SD di lingkungan UPTD Genuk, sehingga tim pengabdian memilih 2 SD di lingkungan UPTD Genuk yaitu SDN Gebangsari 03 dan SDN Genuksari 02. Peserta terdiri dari guru-guru di SD tersebut sejumlah 50 peserta. Tingkat antusiasme dalam mengikuti kegiatan pengabdian sangatlah tinggi. Adapun materi yang diberikan saat pelatihan meliputi Penelitian Tindakan Kelas (PTK), penelitian eksperimen, teknik submit artikel jurnal melalui OJS. Kegiatan pengabdian berlangsung selama 2 bulan di tiap SD yakni pelaksanaan di SDN Gebangsari 03 pada bulan Juli sampai Agustus 2018 sedangkan di SDN Genuksari 02 dilaksanakan dalam Bulan September sampai Oktober 2018 dimulai dari observasi ke lokasi pengabdian, identifikasi masalah sampai dengan pelatihan dan pendampingan pembuatan penelitian dan artikel jurnal. Dari kegiatan pengabdian yang sudah dilaksanakan ada harapan dari pihak mitra untuk menindaklanjuti kegiatan ini dengan kegiatan pelatihan PTS atau penelitian tindakan sekolah bagi kalangan kepala sekolah.Kata kunci: Action research; artikel jurnal; kelompok guru SD; pendampingan metodologi penelitian.AbstractThe promotion and class for PNS teachers is important, but what must be done is the publication of scientific activities such as the Permen PAN and Bureaucratic Reform Number 16 of 2009. Forms of scientific publications can come from action research and experiments. The knowledge of elementary teachers about the methodology of action research and experimental research and the writing of scientific articles in journals that are still minimal is a problem for the teacher. Community Service is working with teacher groups in the sub-district of Genuk, Semarang, Central Java Province. Implementation of community service, in the form of training activities, workshops, research assistance and compiling journal articles. Journal articles from service participants who have fulfilled the requirements will have the opportunity to be published in the PGSD UNISSULA basic education journal. The implementation of service is done with teacher group partners in Genuk sub-district, but in the implementation the service team is advised to directly go to elementary school in Genuk UPTD, so the team the service chose 2 elementary schools in the Genuk UPTD namely SD Gebangsari 03 and SD Genuksari 02. Participants consisted of 50 elementary school teachers. The level of enthusiasm in participating in service activities is very high. The material provided during the training included classroom action research (CAR), experimental research, techniques for submitting journal articles through OJS. The service activities lasted for 2 months in each elementary school, namely the implementation of SD Gebangsari 03 in July to August 2018 while at SD Genuksari 02 held in September to October 2018 starting from observation to the service location, identifying problems up to training and mentoring making research and journal article. From the service activities that have been carried out there is hope from the partners to follow up this activity with PTS training activities or school action research for school principals.Keywords: Action research; journal articles; SD teacher groups; mentoring research methodology

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