Data Gathering Technique METHODOLOGY

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 33 before by providing data in tables. The following tables contain the articles written by international writers. The tables exhibit the frequency of lexical items of the compound nouns and their types. Table 3.7: Frequency of Forms Used by International 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 3.8: Frequency of Types Used by International Writers NO Articles Frequency of Types Words Percen- tage Endo Exo Verbal 1 2 3 … Total Average Those are the tables which are used to display the data from international writers. The articles written by international writers were also sorted from the oldest to the newest. Next, the researcher also provided a table that exhibits the percentage of compound nouns used by national and international writers. Table 3.9: Percentage of Types Used by National and International Writers No National Writers International Writers Article Percentage Article Percentage En- do Exo Ver- bal All En- do Exo Ver- bal All 1