Audio-Video magazines, Academic journals, Architecture magazines, Art magazines, Automobile magazines, Boating magazines, British boys magazines,
Business magazines, Comic books, Computer magazines, Customer magazines, Fantasy fiction magazines, Health and fitness magazines, History magazines,
Horror fiction magazines, Humor magazines, Literary magazines, Luxury magazines, Mens magazines, Music magazines, News magazines, Online
magazines, Partworks, Political magazines, Pornographic magazines, Pulp magazines, Railroad magazines, Regional magazines, Religious magazines,
Satirical magazines, Science fiction magazines, Science magazines and scientific journals, Serials, periodicals and journals, Shelter magazines home design and
decorating, Sports magazines, Student magazines, Teen magazines, Trade journals, Trade magazines, Travel magazines, Wildlife magazines, Womens
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2.2.4 The Purpose of Magazines
The purposes of magazines in common are to entertain or to inform the reader about something, give more meaning to life. Purpose Magazines is the only
inspirational and motivational publication geared toward but not exclusive to minority or multicultural communities. Purpose Magazines provides good news
with Inspirational and Motivational articles to help us meet the challenges of living. What makes Purpose so unique is that it focuses on the positive and uplifting
perspectives of people, issues, news, and information. Besides, in education,
magazines are used as media which have many articles that very useful in teaching a second language.
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2.2.5 Magazines Articles
Magazines articles is an articles published in a magazines articles
- nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication
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magazines - a periodic
publication containing pictures and stories and articless of interest to those who purchase it or subscribe to it; it takes several years before a magazines starts to
break even or make money. It is containing a collection of articless, stories, pictures, or other features
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2.2.6 The Use of Science Articles in Reading Comprehension
Magazines have many of articles such as entertainment, gossip, short story,
biography of selebrity, science, etc. I used science articles to this research because it has advantage for students esspecially IPA students in order to increasing their
knowledge about English and fluently in reading comprehension. Besides, science articles also gives the students knowledge about science that they have not learn
before.
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CHAPTER III METHOD OF INVESTIGATION
This chapter consists of the analysis of method of investigation. It would be started from the analysis of action research, the analysis of population, the analysis of
sample, the analysis of variable of the research, the analysis of the method of collecting data, the analysis of instrument, the analysis of trying out of instruments,
the analysis of the step in action research, and the analysis of the method of data analysis.
3.1. Action Research
I conducted a kind of investigation namely action research to gathering the data needed for accomplishing this study. According to Wallace 2004: 4, action
research is a process which is done by systematically collecting data on your everyday practice and analyzing it in order to come to a decision about what your
future practice should be. Its different opinion from Nunan 1990: 66 that said action research is a tool which is particularly amenable to such an experimental,
problem oriented approach. Action research has several characteristics, which are: 1
Practical and directly relevant to an actual situation in the working world. The subjects are the classroom students, the staff, or other with whom you are
primarily involved.
