Özet:

Applications are one of the most frequently encountered official letters in everyday life, written for the purpose of asking for any request or complaining about a situation. This study was carried out in order to identify the errors the Turkish teachers candidates who will give their students the ability to write a petition according to their branches and to identify whether the errors are mainly due to the form characteristics or the content characteristics. The study also examined whether the mistakes made differed according to classes and gender. In this context, the study used the document review, which is one of the qualitative research methods, in order to determine the errors they made from the examples they wrote. The universe and examples of the study are formed by the Turkish and Social Sciences Education Department of the University of Çanakkale on March 18th and the students of the 1, 2, 3 and 4th grade who study in the Turkish Education and Social Sciences Department. The data is obtained from the application text printed to the Turkish teacher candidates. The Turkish teacher candidates have found the least mistake in writing history and telling the merma, the most mistake in writing the office name, in self-representation and in the request phrase. The results of the study were compared with the other studies in the field at the end of the study and were presented in recommendations.