Type of Research Source of Data

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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

A. Type of Research

Research methodology is the way of thinking and doing which carefully arranged to carry out and achieve the goal of the research Kartini Kartono 1990: 20. This research uses a qualitative method in finding the data to be discussed. Sutopo 1988 states that the data collected for this method are words in the sentences or in the pictures and not in the form of numbers. This research also used descriptive method. The purpose of descriptive method is to seek accurate and adequate description of activities, objects, process and persons. Arikunto also adds that descriptive research does not need any hypothesis in its research stages. The description is commonly used to describe certain phenomena, based on data collected, to get a conclusion. 1992: 200. The use of descriptive method is aimed to describe the textual meaning in movie review columns: Now Showing column and Flick Fact column. The descriptive comparative is also employed in this research. According to Surakhmad a descriptive comparative study to compare the similarities and the differences of a certain phenomenon 1994:139. It refers to comparing the two texts of movie review of Now Showing column and flick Fact column. This research compares the lexicogrammar, cohesion, genre system, the channel and lxxviii medium applied in both texts. The purpose is to know the similarities and differences of the object which were analyzed.

B. Source of Data

The data source is subject from which data are obtained Arikunto, 1987. The source of data is an important part in research organization; the appropriate data will give the researcher a great number of information for the research. The data used in this research were obtained from the movie review in the Jakarta Post entitled ‘Wallace and Gromit’ in Now Showing and Flick Fact Column published on the 11 th and 18 th of December,2005. The data of this research are in the form of lexicogrammar, cohesion, text structure and genre of the two texts.

C. Sample and Sampling Technique