The Correlation Between Punctuation and Narrative Writing Among the Second-Year Communication Science Students of BSI University

This research is made as a result of issue of error punctuation usage on narrative writing. Understanding meaning of writing text is depend on the punctuation. It is scrutinized by using correlation research method. The result of the research was elaborated into three categories. They are low, middle, and high. Based on variable of punctuation usage, the low grade defined 21,62% or 8 students, the middle grade defined 65,75% or 21 students, and the high grade defined 21,62% or 8 students. Furthermore, based on narrative writing, the low grade set 24,32% or 9 students, the middle grade set 51,35%, and the high grade set 24,32% or 9 students. Then, the researchers resulted “r hitung” = 0,5956 and “r table” = 0,334 or 0,430. The calculation showed that “r hitung” was bigger than “r table”. It means that there was a significant correlation between punctuation usage and narrative writing among the second-year communication sciences students. Through the finding and looking at middle category grade, it can be summed up that there was significant study between punctuation usage and narrative writing.