CHAPTER III METHOD OF STUDY
The methodology of study is designed to figure out the problems by analyzing and describing the facts and data. The method applied here is library
research method. It needs to collect and read some books and browse some websites or blogs to gather information which is related to the topic. Then it is sorted to find
the suitable references. After gathering the data, it uses descriptive method to describe the data and information taken from references. Nawawi 1991: 67 states,
“Metode deskriptif dapat diartikan sebagai prosedur atau cara memecahkan masalah penelitian dengan memaparkan keadaan objek yang diselidiki
seseorang, lembaga, masyarakat, pabrik, dan lain-lain sebagaimana adanya, berdasarkan, fakta-fakta yang aktual pada saat sekarang”.
3.1 Method of collecting the data
It uses purposive sampling method in choosing the samples of the data. Purposive sampling method means that the samples are taken from independent
observations from the same probability distribution, without involving any real population. It means the samples are not the real representative of the population of
the data. It chooses articles from Telegraph E-Paper which is one of leading newspapers in England. It is the same edition as the newspaper printed in the United
Kingdom. There are some sections on Telegraph E-paper such as business, gardening,
motoring, property, sport, etc. And in the sports section there are some kinds of sport such as Rugby, Golf, Tennis, Football, etc. And it decides to choose football articles
because it is the most popular sport in England. That it is very likely that football is the most read articles from the others. So, it should be written as interesting as
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possible. There are twelve pages of the sports section which is issued on 12
th
February 2012; five pages of them are football news. In these five pages there are 14 articles which are the samples of the thesis.
To collect the data these methods are used: 1.
It reads the article to understand the message of every sentence and the article. 2.
It identifies and categorizes every dependent clause in complex sentence form. 3.
It italicizes the clauses and underlines the dependent clauses.
3.2 Method of analyzing the data
After collecting the data, there are some steps need to be taken in analyzing it. It applies these steps;
1. The data is displayed in a table.
2. Clauses are calculated to find out the most dominant dependent clause of complex
sentence in the newspaper. 3.
It finds out the percentage of article which applies the most dominant and the less dominant of every dependent clause. In order to get the accurate percentage of the
most dominant clause, it uses a formula from Nawawi 1991: 150 as follow; X
x 100
= N
Y X = Number of clauses
Y = Total number of all data N = Percentage of the clause
By applying this formula, it expects the calculation of the percentage of the most dominant clauses of this thesis is reliable. Finally, it is able to arrange conclusion and
suggestion.
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CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS AND FINDINGS
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