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CHAPTER III METHOD OF RESEARCH
3.1 Research Method
The method of this thesis is qualitative research because the researcher observed and analyzed directly the subject of this study. Qualitative research is
concerned with developing explanations of social phenomena. Bogdan and Biklen 1982 propose five characteristics of qualitative research as quoted from Aulia
2010:29, they are;
a. Qualitative research has the natural setting as the direct source of data and researcher
is the key instrument. b.
Qualitative research is descriptive. The data collected is in the form of words of pictures rather than number.
c. Qualitative research is concern with process rather than simply with outcomes or
products. d.
Qualitative research tends to analyze their data inductively. e.
“Meaning” is essential to the qualitative approach.
The design of this research is descriptive qualitative method since the data are in the form of words. This point discusses the way to collect, analyze, and get the
valid data due to the need of completing the research objectives. Therefore, even when certain statistics were calculated, the writer used it to form a descriptive
qualitative conclusion to describe the logical relation in the articles. The data are analyzed descriptively based on Beekman and Callow and Barnwell ‘s theory that is
logical relation used in globe asia magazine. The technique which was used in this research is the analysis of written contents in selected articles.
3.2. Data and Data Source
The data of this research are every sentence in that magazine that contains the logical relation. The data of this research were taken from the globe asia magazine.
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This magazine consist of 35 articles but the writer limit the analysis on 21 articles in oder to avoid overlapping.
The more specific page where the writer took her data is on the page: A new ecosystem for manufacturing page 12, Managing labor the pancasila way Page
14, US-Indonesia relations post elections Page 16, Readers say Page 18,Iran’s death spiral-II Page 20-22, Harnessing the power of sovereign wealth funds Page
24-26, Charting a new course Page 28-30, Safeguarding Indonesia’s national security Page 32-33, The art of balancing business perspective page 34-39, The
apartment king Page 40-46, A global network of Indonesians:a new meaning to diaspora 48-50, The limits of economic forecastingPage 52-54, Engage, Holcim’s
formula for workplace synergy Page 56-58,
Looking beyond the domestic maket Page 60-61,Yellow for Express in battle of the cabs
Page 62-63, Getting your nose ahead Page 68-70, Talking about energy sovereigny Page 72-74, A
conversation with Rudi Rubiandini Page 76-77 , Building a bridge across the pacific
Page 78-80, The importance of professionnal education Page 82-
83, Unlocking new trade potential Page 84-85. This research focuses on logical relation in globe asia magazine. From the
data source, the researcher analyzes the logical relation focusing on the categories of logical relation based on Beekman and Callow and Barnwell ‘s theory which are
classified as Reason-Result, Means-Result, Purpose -Means,Concession- Contraexpectation,Grounds-Conclusion, Ground-Exhortation,Condition-
Consequence as the data.
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3.2 Data Collecting Method
The data was taken from the globe asia magazine that focus on 21 articles as mentioned before. The data of the logical relation was read for many times in order
to get a better understanding. Then the data was numbered based on the sequence of the sentence.
3.4 Data Analyzing Method
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