Research Method Research Setting Research Participants

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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

This chapter provides a rationale for the methods of research analysis, describes the methods of research and analysis, outlines the procedure to be used to gather and analyze the data, and reveals the boundaries of the research. This chapter includes the research method, research settings and participants, research instruments, data gathering technique, data analysis technique, and research procedures.

A. Research Method

The research used a document analysis as the method. Ary, Jacobs, Razavieh 2002 defined the document or content analysis as the research method applied to written or visual materials for the purpose of identifying specified characteristics of the material. They added some purposes of document analysis in the research: to identify bias, prejudice, or propaganda in textbooks; to analyze types of errors in students’ writing; to describe prevailing practices; to discover the level of difficulty of material in textbooks or other publications; and the last to discover the relative importance of, or interest in, certain topics. The purpose of this research was to analyze types of errors, especially the errors in Chapter I of Research Proposal produced by students in Thesis Writing Course. The data resulted from analyzing the documents were interpreted in the form of rich description. Qualitative research, as said by Ary et. al 2002 , dealt PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 25 with data in the form of words. It was also stated that qualitative researchers attempted to get a rich of description from interviews, observations, and collections of documents which were important for the studies.

B. Research Setting

The research was conducted in English Language Education Study Program of Sanata Dharma University. The researcher collected the documents of Research Proposal on March-May 2011. The documents were analyzed on June- July 2011.

C. Research Participants

There were twenty five students of the seventh semester academic year of 20072008 who had taken Thesis Writing Course became the research participants in the research. The participants were in the advance level of English proficiency with the range of age between 21-23 years old. The twenty five students were taken from different class of Thesis Writing Course. The participants represented the writing ability of twenty five students of English Language Education Study Program. Those twenty five covered three fields in English Language Education Study Program research. They were linguistic, literature, and lenguage teaching. The researcher took the students to be the participants using purposive sampling technique. The researcher chose the research proposal documents of the students who did the qualitative research. As a PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 26 qualitative research, the result of the research would represent the errors made by those twenty five participants.

D. Instruments and Data Gathering Technique