Incorporating Referencing System in writing a research proposal: a case study at English Teacher Education Department UINSA

This research discusses the incorporation of referencing system in English research proposal writing at English Teacher Education Department UINSA. The aims of this content analysis research are to explore; 1) The ways students incorporate referencing system in English research proposal writing. 2) The types of referencing system used. The documents analysed are students’ English research proposal writing and the references or literatures used by the students using purposive sampling. Five documents along with the references were taken from students of English Teacher Education Department who have passed on seminar proposal examination in year 2018. The results highlighted the following; 1) Students still improper incorporate referencing system in English research proposal writing. Most of them failed to correctly cite the texts from the original text. Moreover, in paraphrasing and summarizing the students directly copied the main points of the original texts into their writing. 2) The students used three types of referencing system of direct quotation, paraphrasing, and summarizing. From five research proposals identified, the majority of the students used direct quotation (61 quotes). This indicate that the students still use the key basic referencing system.