Students’ Ability in Indentifying Differences Run on Sentences and Sentences Fragment to the Sixth Semester Students’ of English Department STAIN Zawiyah Cot Kala Langsa

Writing is the product which is produced by several acts that would be studied simultaneously. The products which are produced by writing process can be classified in several kinds, they are professional writing, formal writing, essay, business letter, paragraph, composition, and many others. Writing skill has been studied in every level of education. Particularly in university, the students of English department education have studied writing in every level of semester. Nevertheless, it is not to be sure that most of them can write writing text well. For example, the English department education students in STAIN Zawiyah Cot Kala Langsa, even thought the students have studied writing in every level of semester, some of them cannot write well. Based on their final examination, most of the students have problem in understanding run on and sentence fragment in finishing their writing test. They cannot write run on and sentences fragment well. Almost a part of students at the fifth semester students got not sufficient score in writing IV. They often write sentence incompletely without showing a certain subject or verb obviously. Furthermore, they also write a long sentence without any punctuation within. According to the fact, the writer is interested to do a research which has purpose to analyze the students’ ability in identifying run on and sentence fragment at the sixth semester students of English department education of STAIN Zawiyah Cot Kala Langsa.