Syntactical Errors Made by the Students in Writing Thesis at English and Literature Department of Adab and Humanities Faculty of Alauddin State Islamic University of Makassar

The writer used a descriptive method in analyzing and collecting data. The sources of data in this research were the students‟ theses of English and Literature Department in academic year 2012-2013. The writer used note taking as the instrument to get the data. The writer made some notes to classify and find the error in the thesis. The procedures of data collection are reading the theses, observing an error, identifying the data, classifying the syntactical errors, explaining and revising errors. The writer used Politzer and Romirez’s theory focusing on the Syntactical errors. Based on finding and discussion in this thesis, the researcher found that the errors made by students were in the term of noun phrase, verb, verb construction, and transformation. Then, the most frequent error found was in the noun phrase term with 48.7%. The researcher suggests the English teachers to give reinforcement for the students about the basic rules of constructing sentences. The writers also have to know about the types of errors which are usually made to avoid of making errors