A Test: The Writing Model Prototype of an Applied Master's Thesis

using Genre

Nur Hasyim

, Ade Sukma Mulya

, Abdillah

and Darul Nurjanah

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

Keyword: Thesis, Applied Magister, Writing, Genre

Abstract: The research article describes the testing of model prototype to write the applied master thesis. The test done

to ten students of applied master student on Politeknik Negeri Jakarta. Based on the results of testing on ten

applied master students it is known that the prototype of the writing model provides an increase in knowledge

of 34%. This condition is interesting and needs to be followed by testing the prototype to find out how much

an increase in student skills in writing. On writing, student must have guidence, namely writing base on genre,

as follows. In writing, certain parts of the thesis have writing needs. Writing needs can be written using certain

types of text (certain genres). The description text structure is the thing to be described and parts of the thing

to be described, while the exposition text structure is thesis statement, arguments, and reiteration. In each text

also has certain linguistic characteristics, for example the description text is used more additional

conjunctions; exposition texts use more consequence conjunctions. If the paradigm understood, students can

finish the thesis correctly and quickly.

1 INTRODUCTION

The paradigm of the writing model prototype of the

applied master's thesis is as follows. In writing,

certain parts of the thesis have writing needs. Writing

needs can be written using certain types of text

(certain genres), for example descriptive text or

exposition text. In each type of text has a certain

structure. The description text structure is the thing to

be described and parts of the thing to be described,

while the exposition text structure is thesis statement,

argument, and reiteration. In each text also has certain

linguistic characteristics, for example the description

text is used more additional conjunctions; exposition

texts use more consequence conjunctions. The

prototype model have never been tested. Therefore,

his study tested the model to find out how much

increase in students' writing knowledge after they

were given knowledge about writing a thesis using

the genre paradigm.

This research also becomes very important to be

investigated because until now there has never been

any research on testing prototype models about

writing a genre-based applied master thesis. Existing

studies relating to the genre as follows. Loan and

Pramoolsook (Nguyen & Pramoolsook, 2014) in

their research entitled "Move Analysis of Chapters

Results-Discussion in Tesol Master's Theses Written

by Vietnamese Students" published in 3L: The

Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies

- Vol 21 (2): 1 - 15 found that non-native English

master students need to be given clear instructions on

writing part of the research results and discussion:

what parts are and how to write them. Loan and

Pramoolsook, in his research entitled "Rhetorical

Structure of Introduction Chapters written by Novice

Vietnamese TESOL postgraduates" published in 3L:

The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language

Studies - Vol 20 (1): 61–74 found that beginner

writers need to be given writing learning, clearer

guidelines, genre and cultural knowledge. Hyland in

his article entitled "Genre Pedagogy: Language,

Literacy, and L2 Writting Instruction" in the Journal

of Second Language Writing (2007). Hyland said that

genre can help students in writing so that writing is

effective and relevant to their needs. "For teacher

educators, genre-based pedagogies offer valuable

resource for assisting both students and their students

to produce effective and relevant texts." According to

Hyaland, the genre is also very good for helping

second language learning to be able to learn to write

because the genre provides a clear explanation of the

type of text. Badger and White in his article entitled

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

A Test: The Writing Model Prototype of an Applied Master’s Thesis using Genre.

DOI: 10.5220/0009871200002905

In Proceedings of the 8th Annual Southeast Asian International Seminar (ASAIS 2019), pages 34-37

ISBN: 978-989-758-468-8

"A Process Genre Approach to Teaching Writting" in

the Journal Language Teaching Research (2015). The

article stated that there were three things that

influenced the writing of writing: (i) a genre-based

approach, (ii) the writing process, and (iii) written

product. It was stated that the product of writing was

determined by the process of writing and the genre

approach. Because of this, all three of these things

influence each other.(Hasyim, 2015) Yasuda in his

article entitled "Genre-based Tasks in Foreign

Writting: Developing Writers" awareness genre,

Linguistic Knowledge, and Writting Competence "in

the Journal of Second Language Writting" (2011)

stated that "a combination of genres and task can

create a crucial pedagogical link between socially

written writing and language use, which is expected

to create interfaces between writing and language

development in FL contexts (a combination of genres

and assignments can create crucial learning links

between performance writing in certain social

situations and language use choices that are expected

to be able to provide the best work to create written

work and language use in context." [5]

2 METHODS

The research carried out with research development.

Meanwhile, the prototype model was tested on ten

applied master students at the Politeknik Negeri

Jakarta, by giving an explanation to students about the

prototype model. After that, written questions were

given to them about how much they could improve

their knowledge of writing an applied master's thesis.

Based on these answers the data analysis is then

performed and concluded. The principally, the

analysis data used the qualitative analysis (Santosa

(Santosa, 2017) that cited from Spreadly, 1980):

domain analysis, taxonomic analysis, inter-

component analysis, and finding themes

(concluding).

3 THEORY

Genre theory, among others, was delivered by (i)

Martin and Rose(JR & Rose, 2007) in his book

entitled Working with Discourse, and (ii) Wiratno

and Santosa. Martin and Rose stated that genre is a

staged goal-oriented social process (genre is a social

process that is oriented towards goals that can be

achieved gradually). Wiratno and Santosa states that

text is a social process; Likewise, parts of the text are

social processes. In certain social processes there are

needs and targets that can be solved by using certain

types of text because each particular type of text has

linguistic characteristics so that when linguistic

characteristics are understood and the social

processes carried out are understood, the writing of

texts can be carried out correctly and quickly.

Applied Master Thesis is a macro genre in which

there are chapters, sub-chapters, sub-chapters, and

other sections of the thesis.(Hidayat, 2018) These

parts are social processes so that the author can utilize

the type of text / genre (in this case is the micro genre),

1 type of text or more than 1 type of text, to achieve

the goal. To achieve this goal is carried out in stages /

staged. Micro genre is (i) description, (ii) report, (iii)

procedure, (iv) telling, (v) explanation, (vi)

exposition, and (vii) discussion. Text Description is a

type of text that describes what something is 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 text 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

that the discussion was often called two-sided

argumentation. In each type of text is built with the

structure of the text and has certain linguistic

characteristics. Various types of text have linguistic

characteristics. These linguistic features are used as a

reference for writing thesis sections (chapters, sub-

sections, sub-sections, and other elements.(Martin,

1991)

A Test: The Writing Model Prototype of an Applied Master’s Thesis using Genre

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. 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. The research is done by development

research according to Sugiyono.(Sugiyono, 2006)

4 RESULT AND DISCUSSION

4.1 Result

The results of this study about improving the

understanding of applied master students at the

Jakarta State Polytechnic after being given an

explanation of the prototype model as follows.

Table 1: Increasing Knowledge Students on Before and

After being Explained the Model Prototype

Initial of

Responde

Knowled

ge about

Writing

Before

The Test

Knowled

ge about

Writing

After The

Test

Increasi

ng of

Knowle

dge

A 30 80 50

B 50 70 20

C 70 85 15

D 60 80 20

E 50 85 35

F 40 75 25

G 30 80 50

H 20 90 70

I 40 75 35

J 50 70 20

340

Average of Stundent Increasing of

Knowledge=34%

4.2 Discussion

Based on the results of these tests it can be seen that

the increase in student knowledge about the writing

of the applied master thesis significantly increases.

This condition is encouraging. Thus, prototype

models have the opportunity to become models that

can be used effectively. This result is interesting

because it can give benefit to students as effort to

accelerate graduation.(Fachrudin, 2017)

The model of writing for an applied master's

thesis is based on genres. It is related to the aspects of

the text structure. The research supports the research

about a genre which is similar to the analysis of the

text conducted by Loan & Pramoolsook (2015) in

preliminary writing with Loan and Pramoolsook

(2016). As found in his research findings, the

structure of the description text is (1) something that

is explained, (2) the part of something described. The

structure of expotition is statement, arguments, and

reiteration. The text structure report is (1) something

reported, and (2) class or subclass of something; The

text structure of the discussion is (1) problem

statement, (2) arguments for pros, and (iii) arguments

for contra. A researcher makes it easier to apply by

applied master students to write an applied master's

thesis.(Zeige, 2015)

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5 CONCLUSIONS

Based on the results of testing on ten applied master

students it is known that the prototype of the writing

model provides an increase in knowledge of 34%.

This condition is interesting and needs to be followed

by testing the prototype to find out how much an

increase in student skills in writing. On writing,

student must have guidence, namely writing base on

genre, as follows. In writing, certain parts of the thesis

have writing needs. Writing needs can be written

using certain types of text (certain genres). The

description text structure is the thing to be described

and parts of the thing to be described, while the

exposition text structure is thesis statement,

arguments, and reiteration. In each text also has

certain linguistic characteristics, for example the

description text is used more additional conjunctions;

exposition texts use more consequence conjunctions.

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