Research Method Data and Data Source

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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY

3.1. Research Method

Method is needed in doing a research. Method means a particular way of doing something Oxford Dictionary, 2000: 837. In this thesis, I apply the qualitative method by focusing on the document analysis. Moleong 2006: 6 states that “Penelitian kualitatif adalah penelitian yang menghasilkan prosedur analisis yang tidak menggunakan prosedur analisis statistik atau cara kuantifikasi lainnya.” Qualitative research is a research whose analysis procedures does not used the procedures of statistic analysis or the other quantifications. Furthermore, Moleong 2006: 9 states that “Penelitian kualitatif umumnya menggunakan metode kualitatif yaitu pengamatan, wawancara atau penelaahan dokumen.”In general, qualitative research used three qualitative method such as observation, interview and documentation analysis. In this thesis, I focus on documentation analysis.

3.2. Data and Data Source

In doing the analysis, I as the researcher surely need data and source of data. “Kata data berasal dari ‘datum’ yang berarti materi atau kumpulan fakta yang dipakai untuk suatu analisa, diskusi, presentasi ilmiah atau tes statistik.” The word data derived from ‘datum’ which means material or fact used for an analysis, discussion, presentation or statistic test. http:carapedia.compengertian_definisi_data_menurut_para_ahli_info505.html Universitas Sumatera Utara xlviii The data I used for the analysis are all noun clauses found in three selected info articles of Hello Magazine. According to Lofland and Lofland 1984: 47 in Moeleong 1989:112 “Sumber data utama dalam penelitian kualitatif ialah kata-kata, dan tindakan selebihnya adalah data tambahan seperti dokumen dan lain-lain.” The main data source in qualitative research are words and act while the other is the adding data such as documents etc.. Furthermore, “Moleong 1989: 112 membagi jenis data ke dalam kata-kata dan tindakan, sumber data tertulis, foto dan statistik.” Moleoeng 1989: 112 divides the types of data into words and act, written data source, photo and statistics. Based on this statement, I choose one of the types of data. I choose the written data source as the source of data for this thesis. Moleong 1989: 113 states “Dilihat dari segi sumber data, bahan tambahan yang berasal dari sumber tertulis dapat dibagi atas sumber buku dan majalah ilmiah, sumber dari arsip, dokumen pribadi dan dokumen resmi.” Seen from the source of data, the adding data from written source can be divided into books and magazine, archive, personal documents and legitimate documents. Magazine as one of the written documents is taken to be the source of data. Magazine is publication that is printed with ink on paper and generally published on a regular schedule and containing a variety of content retrieved from http:en.wikipedia.orgwikiMagazine. Hello Magazine is a magazine that is published monthly by Widya Niti Bahasa Foundation to provide English Learners of any background study especially the youth with good reading materials. I choose it because the language in the magazine is easy to understand especially for the one Universitas Sumatera Utara xlix who wants to study English. Besides that, the articles that served in the magazine are good to be read. Articles are a piece of writing in magazine or newspaper.Why I only