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Abstract

For a writer to effectively deliver his or her thoughts and feelings, the piece of writing should be well composed in both form and content. However, many university students find it hard to use proper word spacing and commit many mistakes in their writing. To assist with the systematic teaching of word spacing, this article analyzed the patterns of word spacing errors in 373 writings of the 102 university students who took the elective course, "Basic Writing." at University C, in the second semester of 2017. 1,268 errors were found in 975 sentences of 373 pieces of writing, including 608 errors with predicates (47.9%), 358 errors with nouns(28.2%), 189 errors with combinations of an uninflected word and a predicate (14.9%), 56 errors with postpositions (4.5%), 32 complex errors where two or more errors were combined (2.5%), and 25 errors with adverbs (1.9%). More specifically, errors that included a combination of both predicate and auxiliary predicates totaled 514 (40.5%), followed by errors involving a combination of nouns (277, 21.8%), errors involving the combination of a predicate and a bound noun (81, 6.4%), errors involving predicates (70, 5.5%), errors with a combination of a noun and a predicate (48, 3.8%), errors with a combination of a predicate and a noun (33, 2.6%), and complex errors where two or more errors were combined (32, 2.5%). Much research shows that university students find it hard to use proper word spacing, which is the foundation of the form of writing, committing many errors in their writing. Various methods are used by teachers to teach the proper use of word spacing. However, in real education settings, time and other restrictions prevent them from teaching about the finer points of word spacing. Hopefully the analysis of patterns of word spacing errors in this article may help them in real education settings.