1. Literature Review
The researcher reviewed some literatures in order to choose the topic and the problem of this study. The literature review was also used to get the supporting
theories of this research so that the research had the background theory to support it. The literature review was done from November - December 2006.
2. Writing the Proposal
The next step after doing the literature review was writing the proposal of the study. The proposal consisted of three chapters; they were chapter one for
introduction, chapter two for theoretical review and chapter three for methodology. This proposal was compiled to give boundaries of the study and
the guidelines in conducting the research. This step was done from January – March 2007.
3. Conducting a Test
Having written the proposal, the researcher conducted a test. Before conducting the test, the researcher stated the sampling of the participants. The researcher
chose randomly which Writing IV class that would be used as the participants to do the test. After choosing two classes, the researcher conducted the test in those
classes. Through the test, the researcher asked the fourth semester students in those classes to write an argumentative paragraph based on the topics provided.
The researcher did not tell them what characteristics would be judged to make sure that the result will be originally based on the students’ basic writing
competency. This step was done in March 2007.
4. Testing the rubric
After conducting the test, the researcher chose one of the students’ paragraphs to test the reliability of the rubric as formulated in figure 3.2. The paragraph was
copied and given to seven persons to be scored using the rubric. Those seven persons were those who had the competence on language teaching. When those
persons gave the same score or at least the scores were still in the same level good, fair or poor, the rubric was reliable. However, if the result did not meet
the requirements stated before, the rubric was not reliable and it should be improved until the result was reliable. This step was done in March and April
2007.
5. Analyzing the data
In this step, the data that was in the form of students’ composition were analyzed. The analysis followed the steps which had been explained in the data
analysis technique Chapter III. This step was done in April 2007.
6. Giving suggestion
This study was made to give benefits for some aspects. Thus, in this part the researcher would give conclusion of the research, restated the result of the study
and gave some support or suggestion to those who get the beneficial aspects of this study. This step was done in April 2007.
This following chart will show the diagram of this research.
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