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CHAPTER IV RESEARCH RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS

This chapter presents the results which answer the question previously formulated in research formulation. The researcher analyzed the data and gave reasons to reach conclusion. The sources of data in this research were the second semester students who were taking Paragraph Writing in the Academic Year of 20112012 and the fourth semester students who were taking Critical Reading and Writing II in the Academic Year of 20102011 at the English Education Study Program of Sanata Dharma University. To collect the data from participants, the researcher employed an instrument which was writing feedback checklist. This data were collected in May 2012 until June 2012. The researcher obtained the data through asking the students to fill in the writing feedback checklist which had been distributed. The students were asked to fill the instruments at home. The researcher assumed that if they filled the instruments at home, they would have more time to think carefully. The following week, the students submitted the writing feedback checklist and their first writing which had been commented by their friends.

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th Semester Students’ Feedback to Their Peers’ Writing The Researcher obtained the data from the first draft of the forth semester students who were taking Critical Reading Writing II with their friends’ feedback on it, based on the writing feedback checklist which had been provided by the researcher. The researcher distributed the instrument to class A and D of Critical Reading and Writing Class. There are forty copies which were distributed to Class A and forty three copies distributed to Class D. The total checklists which were returned to the researcher were sixty nine. Some of the checklists had not been completed. Therefore, the researcher took the data randomly from Class A and D. There were thirty nine data results from Class A and D which had been analyzed by the researcher. There were four categories in feedback checklist and in each category there were some points which had to be considered by the proofreaders. 1. Content Providing feedback on the content of the students’ writing is very important. It helps the students to know whether their content of writing is really in line with the topic of their writing or not. Besides that, the students will know whether the content has had good supporting ideas so that the writing has developed well or not. In this research, the researcher wanted to figure out how the fourth semester students gave feedback on the content to their friend’s writing. There