Common Errors in the Writings of Iranian Authors

This research has been conducted in order to point out Iranian authors’ academic writings common errors. This was done by extracting the errors in the writings of forty scientific articles written by professors and students which were edited by an editing team at Sharif University of Technology, Languages and Linguistics Center. Error analysis was done in order to extract the data for this research. As the result of this investigation eight type of errors were extracted as following: errors in word usage, articles, preposition, conjunction, and tense, errors in word order active-passive structure and subject-verb agreement. Among these, errors in word usage received the highest frequency (36.2%) and the least frequent common error was related to subject-verb agreement (0.7%). The error patterns extracted can pave the way for understanding the gaps of writing ability among Iranian writers and designing an appropriate academic writing syllabus which will meet the needs of the students and professors which are supposed to publish high-quality scientific articles in reliable journals.