Data Collection Method of the Study

language such as noun phrase. This study treats the data of noun phrases found in the novel as the part of syntax level of analysis.

C. Method of the Study

1. Data Collection

In conducting this study, the writer would like to apply a population study to collect the data of the analysis. Population study was the appropriate method because in collecting the data, the writer needed a group of thorough data that was taken from general population or the complete data collection to be studied. According to explorable.com, a research population is a well-defined data collection of individuals or objects which have similar, common, and binding characteristics or traits. In this study the group of noun phrase data found in Jace Wayland’s utterances were studied because of the same reasons such as the sharing similarities or common characteristics of the data and later drawing the general conclusion applied to the entire population. The data collection of this study was taken from Cassandra Clare’s novel entitled Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. The data population to be studied in this study was noun phrases. However, in order to give a comprehensive analysis, the writer would like to specify the focus of the study with the limitation of data population into the noun phrase that consisted of more than one word found in one of the character’s utterances in the novel. The writer started to collect the data by conducting a thorough reading of the story of the novel as a whole in order to seek the noun phrase in one character’s utterances. Then writer collected the sentences from the utterances of Jace Wayland. In the utterances, some sentences did not have the complete form of one sentence. It could only consist of one word or one phrase with no subject, verb, or even object. Therefore, the writer limited the data collection by attaining sentences in the utterances which have the complete form of one sentence. In addition, the noun phrase collected from the sentences of the utterances would be analyzed by sorting them. In order to avoid ambiguity, this study only required a noun phrase that consisted of more than one word. When the data population of the analysis was collected, the writer then continued to analyze the data of noun phrase.

2. Data Analysis