are available in printed and electronical media and categorized them into the specific linguistics forms proposed by Warriner 1982. Then, the researcher analyses and
identifies the biographical writings of famous Indonesian people posted on Wikipedia.com.
3.2 Research Objects
This research deals with the Register and Genre analysis of Biographies of famous Indonesian people posted on Wikipedia.com. According to Sudaryanto 1993,
data are the research objects derived from a selection process of any kind of resources which in the research are available in the printed and electronical media, including the
internet p.56. The researcher analyses some flawed English biographical writing of famous Indonesian people posted on Wikipedia.com which can be read by readers in the
entire world.
3.3 Research Setting
In this research, the object of this research is the English Biographical writings posted on Wikipedia.com. The researcher analyses three kinds of flawed English
Biographical writings posted on Wikipedia.com. The data were obtained from en.Wikipedia.com. It is the English language version of Wikipedia.com. The main
source from picking up the data is Wikipedia.com because many people seek information from that website. It is apparent in many cases when people try to seek
information through search engines such as Google, they will be lead to Wikipedia.com. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
After conducting the search of many kinds of biographical writings on famous Indonesian people found in Wikipedia.com, the researcher selected three of them. The
reason these three articles are selected is not only because the fact that they are flawed but the fact that despite how erroneous these biographies are, they are still available in
Wikipedia.com for everyone to read.
3.4 Research Instrument and Data Gathering Technique
In this research, the researcher acts as a human instrument. It is because the researcher “is more responsive to the situation and he or she is able to adapt to the
changing condition” Guba and Lincoln, 1994, p.12. It means that the researcher can process the data immediately and confirm the source or related references if there is
uncertainty. In addition, it is only humans who can collect the confusing data and process it so that it becomes available and easier for others to understand it. Therefore,
the researcher did the analysis then interpreted the data in order to clarify their meaning. There are several steps that the researcher to obtain the data. The first one is by
collecting the English biographical writings of famous Indonesian people from the Wikipedia.com website. The researcher chooses three English biographical writings
from the website. The second step is to analyze them by comparing the information and idea organization based on the theories of register and genre.
3.5 Data Analysis Technique
