The data was gathered by distributing the questionnaires in Research Paper Writing class B was conducted on May 10
th
, 2010. There were twenty respondents in the class. The questionnaire distribution in Research Paper Writing class E and F
were conducted on May 14
th
, 2010. There were twenty respondents and seventeen respondents in each class.
Afterwards, The total was four interviewees who were taken randomly from the respondents of the questionnaire to know further on the use of mind mapping to foster
students’ writing skills and to gain the more specific data about their suggestion on the implication on the use of mind mapping in fostering students’ writing skills, to
achieve the answer of second problem of the research, and to gain the further information of closed form question
E. Data Analysis Technique
The first technique in data analysis was analyzing the questionnaire data gathered from three different classes of Research Paper Writing B, E and F. The analysis
consisted of two steps. The first step was analyzing the closed form questions. The data would be described and summarized into the form of percentage. This kind of
percentage was used to know the students’ perceptions on prewriting step and on mind mapping in prewriting step. The scale indicating the students’ perceptions on
the use of mind mapping to foster students’ writing skills in closed form questions would strongly agree, agree, disagree and strongly disagree. The results of the
questionnaires would be put on the table that contained the statements of the
questionnaire and the degree of agreement of the chosen answer into percentage. Afterwards, from the results of this degree of agreement percentage, the researcher
could have a conclusion on respondents’ perception on the use of mind mapping to foster students’ writing skills. It would answer the first question of this research.
Table 3.3. Data Analysis Technique
No. Statement Strongly
Agree Agree
Disagree Strongly
Disagree 1.
2. Etc.
The second step of analyzing the questionnaire was summarizing the opened form questions. The opened form questions comprised of their opinion of mind mapping in
prewriting step, on the use of mind mapping to foster students’ writing skill, and the suggestions on the implications of mind mapping in writing class which would
answer the second research problem. The researcher would summarize respondents’ answers of each question, then, draw conclusions of each question.
The third technique was analyzing the result of interviews. The interview results were about the further information on the questionnaire data on why the respondents
gave certain answers. Afterwards, the researcher would recheck off the data gathered from questionnaire and interview to have the applicable conclusion.
F. Research Procedure
The procedures of the research were going to have some steps. The first step was to review of the library data of all information that related to mind mapping and the
terms beyond the mind mapping used to foster students’ writing skills. The sources would be books, documents and internet sources. Second step after having enough
data was, as the basic knowledge of the use of mind mapping to foster writing skill, to decide who would be the respondents.
The next step was to arrange questionnaire questions to distribute to the respondents. Afterwards, the researcher met the lecture to have the appointment on
when the questionnaire could be distribute to the respondents of writing classes. Then, the researcher distributed the questionnaire to the respondents in Research
Paper Writing class B, E and F. After, respondents filled the questionnaires; questionnaire data would be processed and then analyzed while searching for other
literature sources. The data from the questionnaire would have two types. The data from closed form question would be processed into percentage, whereas the data
from opened form question would be analyzed and summarized based on each feature. Afterwards, the researcher would have the hypothesis on the students’
perceptions on the use of mind mapping in prewriting step to foster students’ writing skills before the researcher did the interview to gain further data from the
respondents.
Then the research would continue to the interview. Interview of six respondents of the questionnaire randomly would be done in the different time for each interview.
Then, the results were analyzed to complete the previous questionnaire data.
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CHAPTER IV RESEACRH RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
The chapter revealed the data acquired from the result of questionnaire and interview. The data illustrated on students’ perceptions on using mind mapping in
prewriting step to foster students’ writing skills. In this chapter, there would be two subheadings. The first subheading was research results involving the results of the
questionnaire and the results of the interview. The second subheading was the discussion of the students’ perceptions on using mind mapping in prewriting step to
foster students’ writing skills, to answer the first research problem, and the discussion of the students’ suggestions on the implication of using mind mapping
either in writing class or in their own writing, to answer the second research problem.
A. RESEARCH RESULTS
The research results would be presented in two subheadings based on the instruments used in this research. Each subheading consisted of some features of the
questionnaire.
1. The Results of the Questionnaire
In this research, the researcher first counted the results of the questionnaire by presenting the percentage of closed-form question in the questionnaire. It was
