AN ANALYSIS OF FACTORS AFFECTING

STUDENTS’ IN WRITING THESIS OF ENG

LISH DEPARTMENT FKIP-UIR

RIZKI MULIANI
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01 CHAPTER I

02 CHAPTER II

03 CHAPTER III
CHAPTER I
 1.1 INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND OF THE PROBLEM

A main problems in the thesis difficulties is linguistic factor

s and non-linguistic factors Such as difficulties in grammar
structure, less vocabulary, and so on.

According to Wangid and Sugianto (2013) non-linguistic

factors that occur on writing thesis are :

1. Lack of knowledge about thesis writing methodology

2. Confusion in thesis developing theory and often faced emotional interference
3. Lack of ability in writing thesis
4. Difficult in preparing the discussion of thesis
5. Lack of reference books
6. Lack of motivation
7. Difficult on deciding a problem in the thesis
8. The supervisor is too busy
9. Difficult on compile or understanding literature review of the thesis
 1.2.Setting of the problems
The problems discover based on the student who is going to write a thesis

Students get The students hard

difficulty in making The students still
did not familiar in to expanding the
revision. caused theory to make a
the supervisor is writing the thesis
and how to write structural
hard to be found or paragraph
the supervisor too methodology
busy
1.4 Formulation of the Problem

What are the factors that affect student’s difficulties in

writing thesis of English study program student’s FKIP
UIR
. ?
 1.5 Assumption
It is assumed that many students in English department at Islamic university of Riau have many fac
tors affecting the difficulties on writing their thesis. And there is also solution for the problems.
 1.6 Need of the research
The study is recommended for

Students in English Department of UIR

01 who wants to write their thesis

To find out difficulties factors on writ

02 ing thesis of UIR students

To find out solutions of difficulties in

03 writing thesis
1.7 Definition of the term
Writing

Writing means a skill in a language which is turned into a

thesis.

Thesis
Thesis in this research means thesis or dissertati
ons of students at English Department UIR
 CHAPTER II
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
 2.1. Definition of writing

According to Suaedi (2015)

Writing is the activity of the entire brain that uses the ri

ght brain hemisphere (emotional) and the left hemisphe
re (logic).

Iftani (2016).

Writing is very important thing and is usually used

by everyone in his life both for personal and in writi
ng letters or statements from a research result. It is
hard to define the ability of writing.
2.2. Kind of writing
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63% by several approa

Writing can be classified 78%
ches and also writing can be classified by
defining the purpose, the audience, and th
e form of the writing.

Academic Writing

Boikanyo (2015)
such as thesis writing, essay writing, report writ
ing, blog writing, etc. The students need more ti
me to write an academic writing and a lot of prac
tice exercise should be done before write the ac
ademic writing.
 2.3. Thesis
Type of thesis

Based on Gaigaliene V.D (2015) thesis is research compiled

by students based on their respective fields as a requirement t
o get a bachelor’s degree.

01 02
Minor thesis Masters by research
.
2.4. Factors affecting writing thesis
According to Brown (2007) there are three factors that affect difficulties on writing thesis
 2.5. Past Studies
Matin A.M & Khan M.A.W (2017)

The problems in general ident

It was conduct in 20 different
medical colleges
At Bangladesh
The participant was 133 postgrad
uate students and 46 supervisors
ified were lack of students’ kn
owledge, experience, commit
ment in thesis work, time con
straint, excess workload, lack
of fund, inadequate and irregu
lar meeting with supervisors. I
nstitute related problems wer
e inadequate guidance and re
sources of the institute, absen
ce of research cell and format
s of thesis writing in the institu
te and inadequate cooperatio
n from the institute.
CHAPTER III
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
 3.1 Research Design

Method
In this research, researcher using
qualitative method.

Cresswell (2014)
A qualitative approach is one in which the inquirer o
ften makes knowledge claims based primarily on co
nstructivist perspectives for example multiple meani
ngs of individual experiences, meaning socially and
historically constructed, with an intent of developing
a theory or pattern or advocacy/participatory persp
ective.
3.2. Location and time of research

This study conducted at English

Department Islamic University of
Riau .
On July 2019
 3.3. Population and sample
Population of this research is students from English department of UIR

Questionnaire
Interview

There are
seventeen
participant
which will be 3-4 students will
given interview in
questionnaire depth
from the
academic year
of 2015-2017
 3.4. Instrument of the research
Research tools are another name for research instruments, the kinds of research tools are observation forms, interview schedules,
questionnaires, and interview guides. Ranjit K (2011).

Questionnaire Interview
In the question there will be responses from The questions from the interview are obtain
the respondents namely always, often, som ed from the indicators that the researcher h
etime, rarely, and never.
as found.
There are six questions that
Three indicators for the questions will be asked by the author to
• Psychological factors individuals. The result of the
• Socio cultural factors interview will be explain by the
• Linguistic factors researcher in the research
paper.

Documentation
 3.5. Technique of collecting data

For the questionnaire the answered are me

asured in statements of always, often, som
etimes, rarely and never. And interview 3-4 students
The researcher will recording the
interview section and then explain in the
research paper
for the interview, it going to answer
directly from the participant opinion..

The data of questionnaire is counting by

using presentation to find out the
percentage of each indicator
In questionnaire the researcher will
ask 16 questions to the 17
participants
3.6. Technique of analysis data
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Questionnaire
P = f/n x 100
25%
P = Percentage
F = Frequency of each
45% questionnaire
N = Number of respondents

30%
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