Model-model resensi dalam surat Kabar Kompas edisi Juli-September 2013 (original) (raw)

This research was aimed to describe the book review models and to find out the structure of book review models in Kompas Daily Newpaper, July-September 2013. This research was a descriptive qualitative research. There were 4 steps employed in the data analysis. First, the researcher gave a code for each data which were analyzed. Second, the researcher searched and decided the book review models and their structure. Third, the book review models and their structure were put into the data analysis tables. At last, the researcher described the result of data analysis to answer the problem formulation and the meaning of the data unit. Based on the research applied, there were two findings found; they were the book review models and their structures. The book review models included concision, explanatory, analytical, critical, comparison and descriptive models. There were five structures of the book review. First, the concision model structure (a) prelude: the main idea of the book; (b) main body: the contents of the book; (c) closing: the relation of each chapter and the explanation of its contents. Second, the explanatory model structure (a) prelude: the explanation; (b) main body: the explanation of the book in certain topic; (c) the topic being discussed in the main body and closing part of the book review, and (d) the book being reviewed was translated book in the closing part. Third, the analytical model structure (a) the curiosity and interest of the book in the prelude; (b) the knowledge about the book contents in the body of the book review; (b) the summary and the analysis of the main body in the body of the book review; the analysis of the contents of the book presentation in the main body and closing part, and (d) the new ideas in the closing. Fourth, the comparison model structure (a) the comparison of the similar book with different author in the prelude, main body and closing part; (b) the exposure of the same themed new books in the prelude, main body, and closing; (c) the information of the book position in the prelude, main body, and closing. Fifth, the descriptive model structure (a) the detail of the object being discussed in the prelude; (b) the detailed exposure in the body of the book review; (c) the delineation and elucidation of the book being reviewed in the main body and closing of the book review, (d) the review and the book promotion in the closing. Sixth, the critical model structure (a) the book superiority in the main body of the review; (b) the lack of the book in the closing; and (c) the assessment of the publisher in the main body of the review. Based on the findings above, there were two recommendations proposed to the Indonesian teachers and other researchers. The first was to the Indonesian teachers. They were recommended to put the book review as the material on the academic writing subject. The second was to the other researchers. They were proposed to find more topics and expand them to be analyzed, and deepen each book review model and structure to be more detailed and clear.