Chapter 1: Introduction (15p)

Setting the context of your thesis, what issues are you going to address in your thesis and why?
Chapter 2: Literature Review (20p)
What research has been done? What do they say about your research problem? Establish the
gaps, issues, contradictions in existing literature on your research topic. Link your research
question/hypotheses with the gaps in existing literature.
Provides with a viewpoint, a philosophical stance about research. What are the theoretical
foundations for your approach?
Chapter 3: Research Methodology (15p)
How, why and what chapter: How are you going about gathering your data.
Contains information about methodological approach/methods/sampling
procedures/ethics /validity and reliability of your data collection. In particular you should
answer the following questions:
What approach does your research questions/hypothesis necessitate? Why? (Justify
your methodological approach)
What is a theoretical background for this approach? (Describe your methodological
approach)
Which methods are linked to it?
Which methods did you decide for and why? What other methods could you have
chosen but did not and why?
How are you going about gathering your data? How will you evaluate the data?
How do you choose your participants? (Describe and justify your inclusion and
exclusion criteria)
What kind of ethical considerations your research project encounter? How you
will deal with them?
Does your data reliable? Explain how you ensure reliability of your data.
How do you validate your data?



Chapter 4: Overview (20p)
Show your data, does it or does it not answer your research questions, proof your hypotheses?
Why or why not?
Chapter 5: Virtual Communication as a Campaign Tool by Political Party in
Indonesia (53p)
1. Anti-status quo in the use of Internet media.
1. Golkar standpoint during the fall of Suharto.
1. Difference between before and after Reformasi era
2. Evidences of status-quo related content from the website

What implications do your findings have? Did they prove or discard issues raised in the
literature review? What do your findings mean in context of your profession?
Did they prove or discard issues raised in the literature review?
Chapter 6: Analysis (50p)
Discussion/Interpretation


Chapter 7: Social implications, litrev condlusion and discussion (30p)

So what? Impact on your field. What kind of implication your findings brings into to
theory/policy/field of study ? What kind of contribution your findings brings to theory/policy/field
of study?

2. Second Main Point under the First Main Section of the chapter (include definitions, explanations,
details and page numbers)
1. Subpoint under the Main point
a. Detail and/or definition for the subpoint
2. Subpoint under the Main point
a. Detail and/or definition for the subpoint
3. Subpoint under the Main point
a. Detail and/or definition for the subpoint
3. Third Main Point under the First Main Section of the chapter (include definitions, explanations,
details and page numbers)
1. Subpoint under the Main point
a. Detail and/or definition for the subpoint
2. Subpoint under the Main point
a. Detail and/or definition for the subpoint
3. 3. Subpoint under the Main point
a. Detail and/or definition for the subpoint
4. Topic of Second Main Section of the chapter (include definitions, explanations, details and page
numbers)
5. --Continue Outlining Following the Section I guide that includes subcategories, sub-
subcategories, definitions, details and page numbers.
6. The Outline is to be used as your study guide for the chapter, so the more complete it is, the
better prepared you will be to take the Chapter quizzes and the Unit Exams.