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CHAPTER III METHODS OF INVESTIGATION
The device of the method will be used by the writer to support and to give some objectives that make himher possible to collect and analyze the data in a good
report. The method in a research is chosen by considering its appropriateness with the research object. This research method is arranged based on the problems that
are analyzed and the main purpose of the research. Arranging the research, method is the initial step before doing the process of collecting data and analyzing
them.
3.1 Method of the Research
Since the data that are used in this study are not in numeric form, the study belongs to qualitative research. A qualitative research is a research that the
collected data are in form of sentences and they are arranged or classified, the analyzed to get conclusions
In this final project the writer applies descriptive qualitative method. By using the descriptive method, the writer just collects, classifies and analyzes the
data and then draws conclusion without making generalization to solve the problem of the study. The main purpose of the descriptive qualitative research is
to describe a kind of situation or phenomenon and to find out anything, which has a connection with the situation Arikunto, 2002: 184
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The study needs a method to achieve the target of the study. The study’s method is aimed to determine the step of doing the study and to answer the
questions which are stated in the problem statements. The language system in the study is based on the collected data. The collected data is in the form of words and
sentences. Sutopo stated: Data yang dikumpulkan terutama berupa kata-kata, kalimat atau gambar
yang memiliki arti lebih dari sekedar angka atau frekuensi. Peneliti menekankan catatan yang menggambarkan situasi sebenarnya guna
mendukung penyajian data. Jadi dalam mencari pemahaman penelitian kualitatif cenderung tidak memotong ceritera dan data lainnya dengan
symbol-simbol angka 2002: 35
3.2 Object of the Study
The object of this final project is a novel entitled The Color Purple by Alice Walker. The novel is published by Pocket Books, New York. This work contains
90 chapters in a form of letters or epistolary and 293 pages. Furthermore, the writer’s final project uses a qualitative method.
3.3 Types of Data
Since the object of this final project is a written work, the data will be in a form of words, sentences, dialogues, and utterances derived from the novel that has
correlations with the topic itself.
3.4 Procedures of Collecting Data