A Guide to Research Proposal and Thesis Writing

Karanja, John Gakuu

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“…The problem that got the high score was finding current sources (no longer 10 years) for literature review is difficult for them. The similar findings from Suryatiningsih (2019) and Karanja (2016) also revealed that some researchers do their reviews on research that was not the current one. Moreover, students also felt difficult to critically analyze works of literature.…”

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“…Moreover, students also felt difficult to critically analyze works of literature. A similar finding from Karanja's (2016) on his study revealed that some researchers do not critically review all aspects of the study design analysis, instead accepting research findings and interpretations without question. A study from Rezeki (2018) The problem that also got the high score was having knowledge of proper lexical items and linguistic units (from phoneme to discourse) on the research proposal.…”

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confidence: 66%

“…A research proposal is a work plan that determines a specific area of research and states the purpose, scope, methodology, overall organization, and limitations of a study (Karanja, 2016). The ability to write a research proposal plays an important role.…”

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An Analysis of Students' Problems in Writing a Research Proposal

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Salam³

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acit.j.teach.educ.

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This research aimed to determine undergraduate students’ problems and factors causing the problems in writing a research proposal. Ninety-one English Education Study Program undergraduate students in FKIP Universitas Tanjungpura, Pontianak, West Kalimantan, participated in this research. This descriptive research used forty items in a questionnaire as the instrument modified from Dwihandini, Marhaeni, and Suarnajaya’s (2013) model. The model utilized three factors causing students’ problems in writing a research proposal, namely (1) psychological factors, (2) socio-cultural factors, and (3) linguistic factors. To report the findings of the results, the researcher used the descriptive statistics technique to display each factor's percentage score. The findings indicated that the score of linguistic factors got the highest (75,49%), which highly affected students' writing in research proposals. The conclusion is each factor causes problems, so it affects students in writing a research proposal, and linguistic factors become the dominant factor among others.

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confidence: 66%