Model of Applied Master Thesis Research Method Writing

based on Genre

Nur Hasyim

, Ade Sukma Mulya

, Abdillah

and Darul Nurjanah

1,2

Jurusan Akuntansi, PNJ, Kampus Baru Depok, Jawa Barat, 16424

Jurusan Teknik Sipil, PNJ, Kampus Baru Depok, Jawa Barat, 16424

Keyword: Genre, Applied Master, Thesis

Abstract: The text in the part of the research method that is owned by some of the applied Jakarta Masters Polytechnic

students is that there is an inaccuracy in writing. This problem needs to be given a solution by developing a

writing model for the writing method section in a genre-based master's thesis. By using the development

research approach prepared a model of writing the Research Method based on the genre. The result are (i) the

main need that needs to be written in this part is describing related matters to research, such as: approach,

data location, data source, data collection method, analysis data method, data inference, and research steps so

that, this part need to be written based on description text dan procedure text, (ii) description text used for

explaining things that related to research, while procedure text used for explaining the steps of research, (iii)

description text and exposition text have linguistic characteristics that need to be guided in writing.

1 INTRODUCTION

The chapter on research methods is a relatively

difficult part to write. There are at least two reasons

for this: first, lack of understanding about what should

be written, second, lack of understanding about how

to write strategies effectively. For this reason, studies

on writing strategies for part of the research method

are needed.

The study of the strategy of writing research

method chapters is also needed because based on the

results of the literature study there were no studies

that had investigated the topic. The research found

discusses the move analysis on writing Introduction

by Fachrudin.(Fachrudin, 2017) There are also

studies related to writing scientific papers, but do not

discuss the writing model of genre-based research

methods.(Hasyim, 2015)

This article describes the writing model of part of

the research method in a genre-based applied master's

thesis that research on the topic has been carried out

in March to September 2018.

2 METHODOLOGY

The research question is what is the model about

writing the section on the genre-based master's thesis

research method? The study was conducted with a

qualitative research approach. The data of this

component analysis, and finding themes

(concluded).(Hasyim, 2015)

research is information can be in the form of

situations, events, people, interactions, and

observable behaviors related to the model of writing

the Research Methods section on genre-based applied

master thesis so that writing can be done correctly and

quickly.

The data of this research are everything (can be in

the form of situations, events, people, interactions)

related to the writing model of the thesis (applied)

research method based on genre.

The data will be collected by conducting focus

group discussions with genre experts, Politeknik

Negeri Jakarta structural Officials, and applied

undergraduate students. In addition, it is carried out

by conducting direct observations on students who

are preparing activities for the preparation of an

applied master's thesis to obtain data about the thesis

preparation activities and obtain data about the

Hasyim, N., Mulya, A., Abdillah, . and Nurjanah, D.

Model of Applied Master Thesis Research Method Writing based on Genre.

DOI: 10.5220/0009869700002905

In Proceedings of the 8th Annual Southeast Asian International Seminar (ASAIS 2019), pages 14-17

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difficulties encountered when preparing a thesis.

Meanwhile, the data of this study will be analyzed

with qualitative analysis: domain analysis, taxonomic

analysis, componential analyisis, and finding cultural

themes.

3 RESULT AND DISCUSSION

Applied master's thesis is a scientific paper that needs

to be written by an applied master student as one of

the graduation requirements. The paper is a research

report from applied research that is expected to

immediately provide a solution to the problem (PNJ,

2018).

According to Santosa, genre is a social process

that is oriented towards a goal that can be achieved

gradually. In genre theory it is stated that at each stage

of communication there are needs and objectives that

can be solved using certain types of text (micro

genres).(R. Santosa, 2017) Certain types of text have

linguistic structures and characteristics that need to be

guided so that their needs and goals can be written

correctly and quickly.(T. W. dan R. Santosa, 2011)

These (micro) genres are descriptions, reports,

procedures, telling, exposition, discussion and

exposition; more specifically the type is called the

micro genre and each type of text has a tendency to

utilize certain types of linguistic units/certain

linguistic characteristics: verbs (process),

conjunctions, adjectives. These verbs include the

material verb/process of happening whose presence

in the sentence generally raises the role of the actor

and the role of the target; mental verb / process of

mental whose presence in sentences generally raises

the role of taste and the role of phenomena; the

relational verb / process of relational is a verb whose

presence in the sentence produces a definition

sentence (T. W. dan R. Santosa, 2011).

Wiratno and Santosa said that thesis is a macro

genre in which there are chapters, sub-sections, sub-

sections, and other sections of the thesis. These parts

are social processes so that the author can take

advantage of the type of text / genre (in this case the

micro genre), 1 type of text or more than 1 type of

text, to achieve its purpose. To achieve this goal is

carried out in stages/staged. The micro genres include

(i) descriptions, (ii) reports, (iii) procedures, (iv)

storytelling, (v) explanations, (vi) expositions, and

(vii) discussions(T. W. dan R. Santosa, 2011).

Description is a type of text that describes what

something is as it is (something as it is). The

description text relates to the specificity of something

described, its color, taste, and other physical

properties. Report text is a type of text that deals with

grouping things into classes or subclasses. In contrast

to the description text which shows the specificity of

something described, without comparing it with the

others, the text of the report shows the generality of

placing something reported into its class compared to

the other classes. Procedure text is instructional text.

In everyday life, the procedure text is found in the

manual on how to operate electronic devices, how to

call on public telephone, and how to cook based on

recipes. Storytelling is a text that contains activities

or events that took place in the past. The social

function is to arouse or revive real experiences in the

past to create a kind of entertainment for the reader.

Explanation text is a text that contains an explanation

of the state of something as a result of something else

that has happened before and causes something else

to happen later. The social function of explanation is

to explain the process of occurring something

according to the principle of causation. Exposition

text is a text that contains personal ideas or proposals

about something. Exposition text is also called one-

sided argumentation. Discussion text is a text that

contains an issue or controversy about something.

The issue was responded to from two sides of the

argument so the discussion was often referred to as

two-sided argumentation. In each type of text is built

with the structure of the text and has certain linguistic

characteristics.

Based on the results of the literature study, no

research has been found that has discussed the writing

strategy about the part of the thesis research method.

The research that has been done is research on the

structure of scientific papers by Cargill and O’Connor

(M. Dan Cargill and P O’Connor, n.d.) and the

analysis of moving the thesis introduction section, by

Nguyen and Pramoolsook (Nguyen & Pramoolsook,

2014; Samraj, 2008).

Cargill and O’Connor said that scientific paper

structur, namely: abstract, introduction, methods, and

discussion. Meanwhile, Nguyen dan Pramoolsook

said the CAR concept; on introduction for thesis must

contain information that problem have space to be

investigated.(Ekowardono, 1988)

In principle, the writing model of this genre-based

research method is as follows.

Firstly, formulated about something that needs to be

described in the Research Methods section. The need

is to describe various things about research activities

and steps regarding the implementation of research

Model of Applied Master Thesis Research Method Writing based on Genre

Secondly, the type of text that is thought is suitable

for use in writing writing needs regarding research

methods. By looking at the needs in writing research

methods it is known that the type of text that is

suitable for writing research methods is description

and procedure.

Thirdly, understand the structure of the description

text and procedure text. As is known the description

structure is (i) something described, and (ii) parts of

something described, meanwhile procedure structure

is (i) goal from something, and (ii) step-step to do the

goal.

Fourthly, understand the linguistics features of the

description text and procedure text. Furthermore, the

linguistic characteristics are guided in carrying out

the writing part of the writing method of the applied

master's thesis.

Sixthly, Linguistics features of description text are (i)

using an additional conjunction, in Indonesian, such

as dan, and serta, (ii) using sentence transition, in

Indonesian, such as selain itu, ditambah lagi, and di

samping itu. Linguistics features of procedure text

are (i) using a time chronology conjunction, in

Indonesian, such as lalu and kemudian (ii) using

sentence transition, in Indonesian, such as kesatu,

kedua, ketiga, keempat, kelima, setelah itu,

sebelumnya, and selanjutnya.

The following is a paragraph example of the part of

the research method written with the procedure text.

We can see in the text used time cronology

conjunction.

The article material which was presented in this study

was the result of research which was carried out with

a development research approach, namely research

which was used to produce certain products and test

the effectiveness of the product (Sugiyono, 2006).

The product in this research is a genre-based theory

writing model. The research steps as follow. Firstly,

studying the results of previous research related;

secondly compiling prototype models; thirdly,

carrying out FGDs with language experts to get input

on the prototype models that have been compiled;

fourthly, conducting prototype trials; fifthly,

implementing FGD to discuss the results of the

trial prototype model; sixhly, produce a

translation model for the root words and invented

words. In this research article, the results of the

research step (i) to (iii) are presented. The data of this

study, namely information relating to the writing of

genre-based applied master thesis is collected with (i)

literature study, (ii) conducting FGD with language

experts, and (iii) direct observation of students who

are preparing an applied master's thesis. Meanwhile,

after being collected, the data were analyzed with

qualitative analysis: (i) domain analysis, (ii)

taxonomic analysis, (iii) compound analysis, (iv)

analysis of cultural themes, then the analysis results

were used to compile the model.

riting about genre-based scientific writing is

basically a way of writing with an oriented towards

the alignment of the mindset of the author. The author

must understand what he is writing; the text he is

writing needs to be written with what type of text; the

structure of the text he is writing is what the structure

looks like; what is the linguistic characteristic of the

text he is writing: nouns, verbs, conjunctions,

adjectives, number words, and other types of words.

The genre-based writing strategy is oriented to

different text structures with move analysis-based

writing strategies such as those carried out by Nguyen

and Pramoolsook (Nguyen & Pramoolsook, 2014;

Samraj, 2008) which are phased-oriented. However,

when viewed from the similarity, genre-based writing

strategies and move analysis-based strategies actually

have a similarity side, that is both see aspects of the

text content which are then viewed by the parts. those

parts which in the genre are called text structures,

while in move analysis are referred to as phasing in

the text.

The writing model of the research method section

in the genre-based applied master's thesis in the

viewer's perspective is very important and

indispensable. In order to implement this model,

training and assistance is needed so that it can be

understood and applied. Use of the model is

recommended to understand the type of text so that

when writing is more appropriate and directed in

accordance with the genre-based paradima of writing.

4 CONCLUSION

The mindset of the genre-based research method

writing model is to understand the writing needs of

the section, namely to describe things related to

research and write down the stages of research

activities. Next, the appropriate type of text is

specified to write the section. It is known that the type

of text that is suitable for use as a writing base is a

description and procedure. Furthermore, writing is

done with reference to the structure of the text and

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linguistic characteristics that are often used to write

the text: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs,

conjunctions, and others.

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