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employing quantitative research method and two skripsi-s employing qualitative research method.
Because this study tries to figure out the contrast of the use of hedging in skripsi-s employing quantitative and qualitative research method, this study used
purposive sampling. In purposive sampling, the case included in the sample is the basis of judgment of typicality or possession of the particular characteristics being
sought Cohen et al, 2006. The data are taken due to the availability of this research procedure that needs digital copy of skripsi-s in the same major of study.
The same university in similar management is advantageous as well, in terms of internal validity, in that the environment and management are almost equal in
certain conditions. Therefore, this study has two female undergraduate with qualitative skripsi and two female undergraduate with quantitative skripsi. The
following table illustrates the research participants involved in this study.
Table 3.1 Data sources of this study
Variables 2011
2010 Quantitative
1 1
Qualitative 1
1 Total
2 2
The text for research data were taken from skripsi-s of the undergraduate students from the same major. However not all the contents of the reserach are
analyzed due to time constraints of the participants. Therefore, this study takes chapter IV result and discussion sections in similar proportion out of each
skripsi-s. This effort is done in order to retain the naturality of reserach findings, bacause naturality is what qualitative study tries to hold Alwasilah, 2008.
3.4 Data Collection
There are two major data collected in this study. The first is the collection of quantitative data, portrayed in descriptive statistics. The second is qualitative
data collected from text during interpretation of data source to find pragmatical
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use of hedging in academic writing and from interview to support the interpretation.
Quantitative data were taken from the text selected as mentioned in data source section. However, the statistical counts are possible by counting the
occurrences of words identified by Vartalla 2001 as potentially generating hedging see appendices. This involves two main processes, namely, the
collection of the texts and the computerization of the texts Meyer, 2002. First, collection of the texts are taken manually from digital text from each participant
permission. They are usually in .docx format. Thus, there are 4 skripsi-s selected in the qualification mentioned before cf. § 3.3. Computerization of the text are
done: 1 by converting files in .docx format into .txt format. Antcont was used as software to analyze occurrence of hedging based on word per word identification.
The categorization using this software makes the mapping of words use in text easier.
Qualitative data were from the text in clausal unit to interpret according to theoretical framework of hedging. This is for the sake of superficial statistical
description and in-depth understanding of phenomenon observed. The second stage of data collection of this study is to get further information about the data
that are colleted in the first stage. Namely, the researcher himself who analyzed the text based on the nature of hedging, in case there are implicitly stated
expressions of hedging uses out of Vartalla’s categorization. Another instrument to support the second stage data collection was also provided, namely, interview.
The interview was addressed to the authors of the skripsi-s. The interview contains
questions about hedging in the authors’ skripsi-s. It tries to reveal how they acquire the ability to use hedging; why they used hedging and the hedging in
their academic world. This interview is used in this study to support findings of interpretation on hedging used in skripsi-s
based on Hyland’s and Vartalla’s theory about hedging.
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3.5 Data Analysis
