Abstract
Google Translate is a popular translation and is used by most people around the world. Google Translate not only offers translation in various languages, it can even speed up work Translate. In learning the new norm, Google Translate is considered the easiest way to facilitate translation work and assist students in completing academic assignments. Based on the preliminary survey that had been done toward fifteen English thesis abstracts of post graduate students, it was found a lot of mistakes in the writing (tenses). This research aims at identifying the use of tenses/grammar in English thesis abstracts. The type of this research is descriptive through documentation study approach. The population was all English thesis abstracts at post graduate program Jakarta Islamic University. The sampling was purposive sampling. The data were analyzed descriptively. The results of the research showed that the inappropriate use of tense was more than that of theappropriate one in the part of background; the inappropriate use of tense was more than that of the appropriate one in the part of research method; the inappropriate use of tense was more than that of the appropriate one in the part of result (findings); the appropriate use of tense was more than that of the inappropriate one in the part of discussion; and the appropriate use of tense was more than that of the inappropriate one in the part of conclusion and suggestion
Highlights
One of the obligations for students as graduation requirement is to write a paper scientific
This paper is written based on the objective; (i) to find out the types of errors made by students when making a thesis abstract in English and (ii) to analyze the errors which was translated from Indonesian to English using Google Translate
The use of shows in this sentence is not appropriate because the survey was conducted by the researcher at a time before the research was conducted, so the correct word to replace shows is showed, which is the past tense (Verb 2) of show.The Simple Present Tense used in the introduction is only limited to showing the facts and truth of the information we receive and is still relevant today and is considered correct, The second finding in this study was the use of tenses in the research method section
Summary
One of the obligations for students as graduation requirement is to write a paper scientific. Scientific writing is written work that arranged systematically according to the rules based on the results of scientific thinking. Work Scientific reports are divided into several types namely: reports research, papers, scientific papers, theses, dissertations and proposals (Jauhari, 2010). One of the important elements in scientific writing is abstract. This is because the abstract is summary results containing the essence of scientific work. Abstract is a benchmark for the content of the scientific work. Readers will be interested or not to read scientific works is determined by the abstract
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