AN ANALYSIS ON THE ABILITY OF USING CAPITALIZATION AND PUNCTUATION IN PARAGRAPH WRITING OF THE GRADE EIGHT STUDENTS AT MTS ASHRI JEMBER IN THE 2010/2011 ACADEMIC YEAR

Abstract

Writing is one of the English skills that the students need to master. Through writing, we can communicate and share our ideas to other people around the world. To make a good writing, the aspects of writing that must be considered are content, organization, vocabulary, language use, and mechanics. Capitalization and punctuation belong to mechanic components. Capitalization and punctuation cannot be neglected in writing. If capitalization and punctuation marks in writing are not properly used, the readers may have difficulties to understand the writing.