CHAPTER III METHOD OF INVESTIGATION
3.1 Research Design
This research is a kind of experimental research. Conducting an experimental research is quite important to get the reasonable results.
Experimental research is an attempt by the researcher to maintain control over all factors that may affect the results of an experiment. In doing this, the researcher
attempts to determine or predict what may occur. Experimental research is a blueprint of the procedure that enables the researcher to test his hypothesis by
reaching valid conclusions about relationships between independent and dependent variables. It refers to the conceptual framework within which the
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In this research, the researcher tends to use a qualitative research in which the researcher conducts such an experimental research in classroom observation
and draw a conclusion from the results by considering the theory used. According to the purpose of the research that is to compare the writing achievement of the
students from different junior high schools, therefore the researcher conducts the experimental research twice.
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According to the book of “Pengantar Metodologi Riset Sosial”, by Kartono 1996: 270 explains that there are some steps that the researcher has to
know in conducting experiment. The researcher should 1
decide the specific problems that will be discussed. 2
make hypothesis. 3
conduct an observation to predict what the real experiment will be. 4
gather the samples that will be used in the experiment. 5
conduct the experiment. 6
check and test the result of the experiment in the real context.
3.2 Research Method
Descriptive qualitative method was used in this study because the researcher focused his attention on identification, classification, and description of
the collected data from the students writing of descriptive text. As Kartono 1996: 29 states that the descriptive method is concerned drawing, describing, exploring,
writing, and reporting certain conditions, objects or incidents, without drawing a general conclusion. In other words, by using the descriptive method, the
researcher describes systematically a situation or area of interest factually, and accurately.
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In this study, the researcher described how far the students from both different schools master in writing descriptive text correctly by achieving the rules
of writing and some features of the descriptive text; the communicative purpose, generic structures, and lexico grammatical features of descriptive text.
3.3 Subject of Research
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