Organization of paper Conclusions

Hotgantina Sinaga, 2013 MICRO EDITING COMMON ERROR TYPES IN UNEDITED PRINTED ARTICLES OF THE JAKARTA POST Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia | repository.upi.edu | perpustakaan.upi.edu 6 punctuation that is appropriate with the publication‟s or station‟s stylebook Brooks Pinson, 2013. 3. News: accurate and timely intelligence of happenings, discoveries, opinions, and matters of any sort that affect or interest the readers Harriss, Leiter, Johnson, 1981. 4. Newspaper: a vehicle to provide news, goods, and services Ward, 1985. It serves news and daily information. 5. Errors: the term errors here refer to the mistakes in grammar and usage, diction, spelling, capitalization, typos and other elements in micro editing Brooks Pinson, 2013.

1.8 Organization of paper

The study is organized into five chapters as follows: Chapter I: Introduction This chapter provides a brief explanation of the introduction to the area of this study including background of the study, statements of the problem, aims of the study, scope of the study, significance of the study, research methods, classification of related terms, and organization of the paper. Chapter II: Literature Review This chapter presents some theories related to the present study that provides a basis for conducting the statements of problem. It also discusses some previous studies related to the topic of this study. Chapter III: Research Methodology This chapter deals with the research methodology which includes the research design, the steps and procedures of collecting data in the study. This chapter also covers how the data is going to be analyzed. Hotgantina Sinaga, 2013 MICRO EDITING COMMON ERROR TYPES IN UNEDITED PRINTED ARTICLES OF THE JAKARTA POST Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia | repository.upi.edu | perpustakaan.upi.edu 7 Chapter IV: Findings and Discussion This chapter displays the results of the study and the answers to statements of problem. It also provides the discussion of the findings. Chapter V: Conclusion This chapter points out the conclusions of the study and suggestions related to the study as well as the future study Hotgantina Sinaga, 2013 MICRO EDITING COMMON ERROR TYPES IN UNEDITED PRINTED ARTICLES OF THE JAKARTA POST Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia | repository.upi.edu | perpustakaan.upi.edu 61 CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS This chapter points out the conclusions of the study and suggestions related to the study as well as the future study.

5.1. Conclusions

The discussion of the current study is concerned with the types and the common errors found in the unedited version of The Jakarta Post’s news articles in micro editing using eight articles. The types were categorized based on micro editing proposed by Brooks Pinson 2013. The eight articles that were analyzed in the study are GDF Suez opens RI offices to back growing business; Mitsubishi Corp in geothermal push; MNC, Tencent break into online entertainment; Tower’s revenue soars 65 percent; IDX eyes 30 company listings next year; PTBA stays upbeat for expected price rebound; Newmont purchase deadline extended; More than half removed from taxpayer list. Based on the result of analysis, the present study concludes that there are five types of errors found in the unedited version of The Jakarta Post ’s news articles, which are grammar, usage, style, spelling and tightening. Errors in grammar are divided into seven categories: sentence problems, verbs, nouns, pronouns, prepositions, modifiers adjectives and adverbs, and conjunctions. In terms of common errors, the most frequent type of error is grammar 174 occurrences or 58.6 of 297 occurrences, followed by tightening 55 occurrences or 18.6 of 297 occurrences then style and usage, each of them has the same number 30 occurrences or 10.1. The least common error found is spelling 8 occurrences or 2.7. This finding on the common errors suggests that the different language feature or grammatical system between the two languages Hotgantina Sinaga, 2013 MICRO EDITING COMMON ERROR TYPES IN UNEDITED PRINTED ARTICLES OF THE JAKARTA POST Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia | repository.upi.edu | perpustakaan.upi.edu 62 may explain the error patterns. The background of the journalists, which are non- native English writers, also seems to be the cause of errors. In Indonesia, English is used as a foreign language. Moreover, the occurred error might be the case of journalists’ lacks of proficiency.

5.2 Suggestions