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The Perception Of The Eight Semester Students Of English Department On Thesis Writing : A Study On English Departments In Semarang
A Thesis Presented as a Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements to Obtain the Sarjana Sastra Degree in the English Linguistics Study Programme
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By: VALENS ARDITA SULISTYANINGAYU 05.80.0010
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT FACULTY OF LETTERS SOEGIJAPRANATA CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY SEMARANG 2010
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
First of all, I would like to express my gratitude to my beloved Father in Heaven, Jesus Christ. Thank you for guiding me for twenty three years of my life. You have given me a beautiful life. Secondly, I would like to thank Drs. Y E Budiyana, M A and Heny Hartono, SS., M.Pd and appreciate them for the incredibly wonderful guidance and support. I would also like to thank my family, B. Sarwono and C. Endah S., the best father and mother in the world and my brothers, Stefanus Joan A W and Thomas Ardian P U who have given me a great contribution by praying, loving, and giving useful advice. For my lovely boyfriend, thanks for showing me the way to have faith in us, and all of my friends for their support, prayers, cares and helps in the completion of my thesis. The last, but not the least, I want to thank all wonderful people around me that I can not mention their names one by one, “thank you…thank you….love you all. God Bless you all.
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TABLE OF CONTENT
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT................................................................................................................ i TABLE OF CONTENT.................................................................................................................... ii ABSTRACT....................................................................................................................................... iv ABSTRAK.......................................................................................................................................... v CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Background of Study.......................................................................................................... 1 1.2 Field of Study..................................................................................................................... 4 1.3 Scope of Study.................................................................................................................... 4 1.4 The Problems Formulation................................................................................................. 4 1.5 Objectives of the Study...................................................................................................... 4 1.6 Significance of the Study................................................................................................... 4 1.7 Definitions of Terms.......................................................................................................... 5 CHAPTER 2
REVIEW OF LITERATURE..................................................................................... 6
2.1 Writing............................................................................................................................... 6 `
2.1.1 General meaning of writing skill....................................................................... 6 2.1.2 The Importance of Writing................................................................................ 7 2.1.3 Writing in a Foreign Language.......................................................................... 8 2.1.4 Writing Thesis................................................................................................... 10 2.1.5 The Difficulties in Academic Writing............................................................... 11 2.2 Perception.......................................................................................................................... 11 2.3 Students’ Perception on Writing Thesis............................................................................ 13
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METHODOLOGY..................................................................................................... 17
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Population...................................................................................................................... 17
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3.2.1 Interview ........................................................................................... 19 3.2.3 Questionnaire .................................................................................... 19 3.3 Procedures of the Research.............................................................................................. 20 3.4 Method of Data Analysis................................................................................................. 23 CHAPTER 4
DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION..................................................... 24
4.1 Using Appropriate Academic Styles in Writing Thesis................................................ 26 4.2 Expressing ideas clearly and logically.......................................................................... 27 4.3 Expressing ideas in correct English.............................................................................. 28 4.4 There is no idea to write the discussion section............................................................ 29 4.5 Writing coherent paragraphs......................................................................................... 30 4.6 Designing the research.................................................................................................. 31 4.7 Writing the abstract....................................................................................................... 32 4.8 Proofread written data.................................................................................................. 33 4.9 Writing a conclusion..................................................................................................... 35 4.10 Copying or moving quotation from the source............................................................. 36 4.11 Linking the sentences smoothly................................................................................... 37 4.12 Rewriting the revision from the supervisor................................................................. 38 CHAPTER 5
CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION.................................................................. 42
BIBLIOGRAPHY............................................................................................................................. 46 APPENDIX
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ABSTRACT
Thesis is one of the requirements that must be fullifilled by students at the end of their study. In the Faculty of Letter, the students are required to write their thesis in English. There are difficulties faced by students in the process of writing English thesis. Therefore, difference of perception appears among the students regarding thesis writing. Students have their own difficulties in writing English thesis. The purpose of this study is to find out the students’ perception towards problems in writing English thesis. The data was collected by the questionnaires distributed to 75 respondents of the English department students in universities in Semarang who were writing English thesis and analyzed by SPSS – 16.0. The questionnaires were adopted from Tajino and Lee’s (2008) written in their article entitled “Understanding Students’ Perceptions of Difficulty with Academic Writing for Teacher Development: A Case Study of the University of Tokyo Writing Program.”. The result of this study shows that there are six different sources of difficulties the respondents perceived in writing English thesis. Additionally, the six difficult parts dominate the process of writing English thesis. Therefore, it affects more in the process of finishing their thesis.
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ABSTRAK Thesis merupakan persyaratan yang harus di selesaikan oleh para mahasiswa di akhir pendidikan mereka. Di fakultas sastra Inggris, para mahasiswa diwajibkan untuk menulis thesis mereka dalam bahasa Inggris. Ada kesulitan-kesulitan yang dihadapi oleh para mahasiswa dalam proses menulis thesis bahasa Inggris. Oleh karena itu, perbedaan persepsi muncul diantara mahasiswa mengenai menulis thesis. Para mahasiswa mempunyai kesulitankesulitan mereka sendiri dalam proses menulis thesis bahasa Inggris. Tujuan dari thesis ini adalah untuk mengetahui persepsi mahasiswa-mahasiswa terhadap masalah-masalah dalam menulis thesis bahasa Inggris. Data yang dikumpulkan dari kuisioner – kuisioner yang di sebarkan kepada 75 responden dari mahasiswa-mahasiswa bahasa Inggris di universitasuniversitas semarang yang sedang menulis thesis bahasa Inggris. Kuisioner – kuisioner yang di adopsi dari Tajino dan Lee (2008) yang ditulis di artikel mereka dengan judul “Understanding Students’ Perceptions of Difficulty with Academic Writing for Teacher Development: A Case Study of the University of Tokyo Writing Program.” Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa ada enam perbedaan sumber-sumber tentang kesulitankesulitan dalam menulis thesis bahasa Inggris yang responden-responden terima. Dan enam bagian-bagian kesulitan yang mendominasi dalam menulis thesis bahasa Inggris. Oleh karena itu, itu akan mempengaruhi lebih dalam proses menyelesaikan thesis mereka.
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