Keywords : Writing, Essay, Written Feedback
Basically, the students of English Education Department could write English well. But sometimes, they are forgetting some important aspects in writing, such as error gramatical, tenses and ect. Therefore, this research aimed to finding out the kind of written feedback used by English Lecturer, and the second was to analyze how are the function of written feedback given by lecturer. This research was a descriptive study with research subjects were students in 2017 A Class of STKIP PGRI Sidoarjo. Data were collected by analyzing essays which were the result of midtest and assigment of a writing class. Based on the research, there were four kinds of written feedback that students received on their essay and some functions of written feedback that given by lecturer. In fact, the problems associated with written feedback are student attitudes, repetition of errors and understanding of the feedback itself. Therefore, English language lecturers must optimize the use and explanation of written feedback on their writing, so that they can develop their ability in writing an essays.