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RESEARCH METHOD
This chapter contains the research design, research subject, research data,
Since the researcher wants to know how the composing process in writing
The subjects of the research were the students joining Writing B of the
They belonged to three parallel classes (A, B, and C). There were
In line with the focus of the study, that is the students’ composing process,
the research data to answer the research question was in the form of verbal
information about how the students composed descriptive essays. The data of the
study were collected using questionnaire adopted from Petric and Czarl (2003).
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The source of the data was the respondents’ answers provided on the questionnaire
(2013: 136), research instrument was a device used by the researcher to collect the
research data to make his/her work becomes easier and to get better, complete, and
systematic results in order to make the data easy to process. The questionnaire was
used to elicit information from all the students under study to get an overall
description about their composing process. The questionnaire was adopted from
the questionnaire constructed by Petric and Czarl (2003) and was transformed into
Evidence of Validity and realibility was required. The questionnaire was used to
essay of the English Education Study program students about writing in writing
course B. Before distributing the online questionnaire to the real participants, the
the wordings and the interface of it. The researcher tried it out to 19 students. The
researcher asked the students if there was any problem when they filled the
questionnaire in. They said they did not have any problem when filling in the
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adopted from Petric and Czarl (2003) had been well developed, the researcher could use the questionnaire to the research participants.
To obtain the data of the study, the researcher carried out the following the procedures. First, the researcher distributed the
questionnaire online using google form to the participants who were joining Writing B course. As mentioned above, the
questionnaire was distributed from 25 September to 10 October 2020. Second, the researcher downloaded the questionnaire
The data already compiled were analysed through the following procedure. First, the researcher did the coding upon the
participants’ answers given on the questionnaire. Second, the researcher calculated the frequency of the recurrence of the
participants’ answers to the questions concerning the composing process of writing descriptive essay. The calculation of the
frequency of the recurrence was categorized on the basis of the composing process. Third, the researcher drew a comprehensive