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reform” may include promoted, expanded, or open immigration, as well as reduced or eliminated immigration.
The term is widely used to describe proposals to increase legal immigration while decreasing illegal immigration, due to the fact that illegal immigration is a
controversial issue in the United States. Both editorials are dated in 2013 when many campaigns for the enactment of
immigration reform in the U.S. were conducted. The campaigns were initiated by Mark Zuckerberg’s political advocacy group, known as Fwd.us, which manages to
wage lobbying campaign that helped push forward the legislation that would allow for unauthorized immigrants to become U.S. citizens and increase the flow of highly
skilled foreign workers in science and technology. The immigration reform enactment campaigns in year 2013 are aimed at
convincing Republicans in Congress to create a pathway to citizenship for the estimated 11 million people illegally living in the country, authorize more temporary
work visas, and increase security on the border with Mexico.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD
The research method is an important thing in a scientific research. This is because the result of a research can be considered as a scientific one depending on the
method which is used on the researched object. In this chapter, the researcher presents the research design, unit of analysis, source of data, method of data collection, and
method of data analysis.
3.1 Research Design
In this research, the researcher uses qualitative method to study this problem. The data is in qualitative research rather than quantitative one because it is displayed
in the form of strings of words. It depends on how the researcher analyses the data. This research is aimed at analysing the pattern of transitivity, especially the process
and participant types, in the construction of power and ideology of The New York Times and The Washington Times’ editorials.
3.2 Unit of Analysis
The unit of analysis of this research is the types of process and participant on the clauses on The New York Times’ editorial entitled “Deportees, Then and Now”
published on September 7, 2013 and on The Washington Times’ editorial entitled
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“Tough questions about immigration reform” published on July 3, 2013, which are conducted in transitivity analysis. While for the analysis of ideology in which those
types of process and participant construct, the researcher uses Fairclough’s framework for CDA, which is experiential values on the stage of description of the
text, where the method of analysing the ideology on types of process and participant is described.
3.3 Source of Data
The data of this research were taken from The New York Times’ editorial entitled “Deportees, Then and Now” published on September 7, 2013. This editorial
was downloaded from one of the newspaper’s website pages. The online address of this editorial page is: http:www.nytimes.com20130908opinionsundaydeportees-
then-and-now.html. And the other ones were taken from The Washington Times’ editorial entitled “Tough questions about immigration reform” published on July 3,
2013. This editorial was downloaded from the newspaper’s website page: http:www.washingtontimes.comnews2013jul3tough-questions-about-
immigration-reform.
3.4 Method of Data Collection
The steps used in collecting the data of the study are as follows: 1. Searching politic editorials on the internet.
