Bound To Happen: The Insights Of Fresh Graduates During Undergraduate Thesis Writing Process

Abstract

This study was intended to describe the viewpoint of new graduates majoring in English Education while writing their undergraduate thesis. By employing a quantitative survey research design, this study used a Google form questionnaire. The seek objectives were gathered from five new graduates of the English Education Major of Tadris Bahasa Inggris study program in one Islamic university in Kabupaten Mempawah. The data were presented in frequencies and percentages and summarized in six categories representing the subjects' viewpoints. They are process-related, personal-related, language skills-related, family-related, supervisor-related, and classmates/friends-related, with the first three categories have appeared as the dominant category. Moreover, all subjects had tremendous support both from the family side and also from classmates' side. In addition, the results indicated that they had no difficulty during the consultation process with the supervisors; they could focus better in a quiet ambiance or atmosphere to write their undergraduate thesis. To conclude, all categories share a fair role in helping or obstacle the participants in writing the thesis. These results become great additional information for involved parties to reflect on and improvise ways to prepare following students to conduct research and write an undergraduate thesis of better quality.