III. METHODOLOGY
3.1 Research Method
The method of the study is an important thing. In writing this thesis, I do the library research, that is, by reading and studying some books and also research findings
concerned with the topic of the problem. I also apply descriptive quantitative method to analyze them to determine the dominant type of conjunction used in The Jakarta Post
editorials. Hadjar 1996:32 states that quantitative approach presents the results in description of number.
3.2 Population and Sample
Population is a large number of groups which we want to know. The part of population which can represent the whole population is called sample. Data in this thesis
are all the sentences consist of conjunctions found in the Jakarta Post editorials. There are 222 conjunctions found in the Jakarta post editorial. The sources of this thesis are six
editorials that are published in 14
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November 2007, 16
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November 2007, 20
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November 2007, and 22nd November 2007 in the Jakarta Post editorials. The list of the data can
been seen in the table 1 below NO TITLES
DATE SOURCE 1.
Tribute to the people 14
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November 2007 The Jakarta Post
2. Beat the bully
16
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November 2007 The Jakarta Post
3. The more the merrier
16
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November 2007 The Jakarta Post
4. Barking up the wrong tree
20
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November 3007 The Jakarta Post
5. Myanmar spoils the party
22
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November 2007 The Jakarta Post
6. Binding ASEAN
22
nd
November 2007 The Jakarta Post
To decide the number of the sample in this analysis, I apply stratified sampling method according to Manase Manalo 1985: 158. He said that if the population number
of the analysis more than one hundred data we can take half of the data becomes the
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sample, we also can takes all the data as the sample. But if the population number of the analysis less than one hundred data we must take all the data as the sample.
3.3 The Technique of Collecting Data
In collecting the required data, I underline the sentences consist of conjunctions found in the Jakarta Post editorials. And then I classified the conjunctions based on their
types.
3.4 The Technique of Analyzing Data
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