A study with 8th grade level students problems in application of writing rules and with the reasons for these

Elementary Education period is the term when the education of writing is based. The students are directed to writing practices in 1st grade as the basic part. When these students are in the 2nd and 3rd grades, they are started to be applied much more enlarged writing practices. After this, when they are 4th and 5th grades, they are written short paragraphs which composed by themselves. In the second stage of elementary education, after central theme, plan and sort of the writing are given, subjects of writing are made up much more comprehensive. The aim of this study is to examine the causes of mistakes in writing expressions that are made by 8th grade level students. For this search, 52 students from two different schools in Bolvadin, in Afyonkarahisar were selected and these students were done practiced writing expressions in following two months. After this work of practicing, a questionnaire that contained 19 questions was applied to the students. The results of questionnaire were analyzed according to the values of ?percentage and frequency? by using SPSS Output Analysis program. Consequence of this study, it was identified that in which part of writing expressions the students made much more mistakes and the reasons for these mistakes.Key Words: Skills of writing expressions, Teaching Turkish, Elementary education, Evaluation