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31 The previous table is used to show the types of the chosen compound nouns used by national writers. However, the researcher did not only discuss compound nouns used by national writers but also international writers. Therefore, the researcher also provided the table below to show the types of compound nouns used by international writers. Table 3.4: Types of Compound Nouns Used by International Writers No Compound Nouns Types of Compounds Endo Exo Verbal 1 Box office √ 2 Blackberry √ 3 Playmaker √ √ 4 Upbeat √ … … From the table, the readers could know the types of compounds in the selected articles of The Jakarta Post online edition written by international writers. After deciding the types, the researcher made the frequency list of the compound nouns. The frequency list was made to evaluate which kind of compounds that appeared the most in the articles of The Jakarta Post online edition. The articles that had been selected in The Jakarta Post online edition were divided into two parts. The first part is the articles written by national writers and the second part is the articles written by international writers. From columns Sci- Tech and Digital Life in the period of late 2014 up to early 2015, there were nine articles written by national writers and 16 articles written by international writers. The researcher did not know that there were more articles written by international 32 writers than national writers at that period of time. That period was chosen randomly by the researcher because the research was conducted in February 2015. The table below displays the lexical items that form the compound nouns used by national writers. Besides, the next table shows the types of the compound nouns. Those tables could be seen below. Table 3.5: Frequency of Forms Used by National Writers NO Articles Frequency of Lexical Items which Form Compound Nouns Left- headed Words N-N A-N P-N V-N 1 2 3 … Total Table 3.6: Frequency of Types Used by National Writers NO Articles Frequency of Types Words Percen- tage Endo Exo Verbal 1 2 3 … Total Average The first table above shows the lexical items that formed compound nouns used by national writers. The second table displays the types of compound nouns as well. The articles are sorted from the oldest news until the latest news based on the date of publication. After discussing the articles from national writers, the researcher moved to the articles written by international writers. The researcher did the same thing as