30 b The primary instrument used to collect and analyze data is the researcher
himself. c This research method is regarded as an inductive process as it is often being
used to gather evidence in order to establish a theory and a hypothesis that previous research has neglected.
d This research method provides highly descriptive data in the form of words and pictures rather than the numbers.
So, the qualitative descriptive method identifies and describes the phenomena regarding to the topics and brings it to human experience in order to achieve a better
understanding towards the issue. Qualitative findings are sometimes presented together with quantitative result
to facilitate interpretations of the instances. The analysis of data involves the constant comparing of instances of one category with another in an attempt
to “saturate” Creswell, 1994:156. Therefore this qualitative descriptive method also counts the
data percentage in order to merely obtain the presentation of the analysis result.
3.2. Source of Data
The object of the research is the clause complexes in sentences. The sources of data are both Indonesian and Malaysian newspapers. Indonesian newspaper
chosen is a printed The Jakarta Post whereas Malaysian newspaper is an online New Straits Times. The number of texts collected is two articles, or one article from each
newspaper. The articles are similar texts commenting about AirAsia QZ8501. They are:
a Indonesia naval captain says may have located missing plane tail’s section “Indonesia naval captain”, 2015, New Straits Times, January 5, 2015.
31 b AirAsia tail section located, blackbox still missing Jong, 2015, The Jakarta
Post, January 8, 2015. The case of AirAsia accident killing all the passengers on December 28
brought many questions and speculations on how the accident happened and what made the airplane crashed. People tried to search facts and created their own
perspectives. This is why it is important to see the decision of media in presenting their report. It is whether they tend to expand the information they got or project
people’s opinion on their works in order to serve the better information to the readers.
From the heading of the articles, both articles show a logical relation in the sentence. Indonesia naval captain says may have located missing plane tail’s
section ’s New Straits Times shows a projection relation marked by the verbal
process says, while AirAsia tail section located, blackbox still missing ’s The Jakarta
Post shows an expansion relation. It is also very interesting to see whether the headings of the articles determine the whole or the dominant logical relations
appeared in the text. Furthermore, the comparison between Jakarta Post and New Straits Times is
also due to know how these most popular and oldest English newspapers in both countries construct the text based on its logical semantic relation. Moreover, both
newspapers are consistently exposing news of AirAsia QZ8501, a Malaysian- company airlines which crashed while flying with mostly Indonesian passengers.
3.3. Data Collection Procedure
