Place and Time of Research Profile of the Writing Class

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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD

A. Place and Time of Research

This research was carried out at State Islamic College STAIN of Jurai Siwo Metro in the academic year of 20122013. It is a State Islamic College which has the principle of Islamic ethics. It is located on Jl. Ki.Hajar Dewantara Kampus 15.A Iringmulyo, Metro Timur 34111 see Appendix 21. STAIN is one of colleges in Metro which has eight programs which one of them is English Department. In this research, the researcher has investigated the third semester students of English Department at State Islamic College STAIN of Jurai Siwo Metro who took the Writing III in the academic year of 20122013. Most of the students are the new comer in the Metro city to study at STAIN Jruai Siwo Metro. They always want to improve their ability in English. This condition gives much influence to the learning habit of the students. Most of the students have high spirit to learn and practice English. It can be seen from the enthusiasm of the students to use English in the classroom when they do conversation and produce the written text. This research was done from July 2012 to February 2013. It was included to preparation of making the instrument, finishing the licensed research, trying out of the instrument, revising of the proposal, conducting the research, analyzing the data, and writing the result of the research. The schedule of conducting this research can be seen in the following table. commit to user 65 Table 3.1 Time Schedule of Research Activities 2012 2013 July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Arranging proposal √ Preparing instrument √ √ Conducting treatment √ √ Conducting and analyzing the data √ Making report √ √ Submitting the thesis √

B. Profile of the Writing Class

Writing subject is one of the compulsory subjects that obliged to be thought in English Department of STAIN Jurai Siwo Metro. The level of Writing subject is divided into four levels, such as Writing I, Writing II, Writing III, and Writing IV. In Writing I, the students are focused on how to make a good sentence accurately which involves grammatical accuracy, writing mechanics, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization . In Writing II, the students are focused on how to make a good paragraph accurately and acceptably which involves the various types of sentence forms: definition, classification, chronological order, comparison and contrast, and cause and effect. In Writing III, the students are focused on how to make some paragraphs coherently that include making an outline and expressing meaning in written functional text and simple essay. Then, In Writing IV, the students are focused on how to make scientific writing accurately and acceptably, especially in the form of a research proposal for the thesis. commit to user 66 The Writing III class introduces students to produce the best writing text in English. It complements the focus on making an outline and expressing meaning in written functional text and simple essay. The genre includes narration, description, exposition, and persuasion or argumentation. The subject code of the Writing III is MKK.BI.04.3. It is the requirement to the students who are going to take the Writing IV. In this course, the students will have contact hours 45x2 minutes or totally 95 minutes in a week. Focusing on the Writing III class, the researcher has some indicators to the students which are able to 1 understand the learning process in Writing III, 2 understand of the learning contract, 3 arrange an outline for a narrative, a descriptive, a expository, and a persuasive argumentative composition, 4 write the composition of a narrative, a descriptive, a expository, and a persuasive argumentative composition. This subject fosters the students‟ careful thinking, and effective critical writing. The students will be introduced to a range of the most exciting, most challenging, and most pleasurable contemporary writing in English. They will have the opportunity to discover some key critical concepts and terms for writing learning and creative writing. Each class is taught by a professional lecturer at helping the students discover and develop their unique voices in written text. These classes are fun and free pressure. Besides, the students will develop of thinking and writing skill that is able to prove creative writing in classroom. commit to user 67

C. Research Design