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were delivered spontaneously as far as they could help the researcher to validate the information about the students’ responses to teacher’s feedback.
3.5 Data Sources
This research used the students and their compositions as the main sources of data. The compositions were taken from the undergraduate thesis compositions
of the students of English Letter Study Program, Sanata Dharma University. There were two kinds of compositions used, which were the first draft of compositions on
which teacher had given written feedback and the revision of the first draft. The compositions were used to answer the research questions. They were analyzed to
figure out the categories of the teacher written feedback and the students’ responses to the feedback. Meanwhile, the students were interviewed to validate the analysis
on the students’ responses.
3.6 Data Collection
The data used in this research were collected from the undergraduate thesis composition of the eight semester students of English Letter Study Program, Sanata
Dharma University academic year 20052006. In total, there were eight pieces of writing collected from the students. They were four compositions with teacher
written feedback on it and four compositions of the revision. First of all, the first draft compositions were collected from the partipants.
These compositions had teacher written feedback on it. The categories of teacher written feedback were analyzed from these compositions using a checklist.
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Afterwards, the second compositions which are the revision of the first composition were collected. By comparing the changes on first composition and
the revised composition, the responses of students to teacher written feedback could be found out. Their efforts to revise the composition, which is based on the
feedback given, were analyzed. Next, an interview was conducted to verify the analysis on students’
responses. Some questions related to the responses of participants after they got feedback were asked. The interview was conducted at different time and places
adjusted to the interviewee’s situation and condition. The interview was recorded in order to make the result easier to be transcribed.
The data gathered from document analysis and the interview, then, were transcribed as accurately as possible to answer the research problems.
3.7 Data Analysis
