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CHAPTER III METHOD OF RESEARCH
The discussion of this chapter covers research method, data collecting method and data analysis procedures.
3.1 Research Method
The analysis in this thesis uses library research. Some related references are used to support the theory. The data are collected from the novel entitled “The Lost
Symbol”.  This  study  uses  descriptive  qualitative  method. Descriptive  qualitative method  deals  with  a  research  explaining  the  analysis  of  a  research.  The  formula
dealing  with  calculating  data  is  only  used  to  support  the  analysis  of  the  data.  The formula  is  not  intended  to  be  the  main  focus  on  the  research.  Nazir 1998  in
Simanjuntak  2011:19  says  that  descriptive  method  is  a  method  of  research  that makes  the  description  of  the  situation  of  event  or  occurrence.  This  study  analyzes
how the English collocations are translated into Indonesian.
3.2 Data collecting Method
The main source of the data was a novel entitled “The Lost Symbol” written by Dan Brown which is published by Doubleday, United states in 2009 as the source
text  and  its  translation  in  Bahasa  Indonesia  with  the  same  title  “The  Lost  Symbol” translated  by  Ingrid  Dwijani  Nimpoeno  which  is  published  by  Bentang  Pustaka,
Yogyakarta in 2010 as the target text. Both novels are the source of data; the writer selects only utterances containing collocations in each chapter.
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3.3 Data Analysis Procedures