GRAMMATICAL FEATURES IN THE INTRODUCTION SECTION OF ENGLISH UNDERGRADUATE THESIS

The undergraduate program at a university must complete the final
research called a thesis. The introduction section is one of the most
important sections of writing thesis. Grammatical features are one of the
criteria to determine the quality of the introduction section of writing a thesis.
This research aimed to find the grammatical features; (1) the total of tenses
(present tense, past tense, and present perfect tense), (2) voice forms
identification in the thesis introduction section of English Undergraduate. This
research used quantitative method. The checklist and documentation are
used as the instruments. The corpus of this research used were 20
introduction section of English Undergraduate thesis. The result reveals; first,
the students most often used simple present tense with the total of 945, the
total of simple past tense was 306, the present perfect tense showed the
least appearance with the total 34. Second, the active form is the most often
appears in the introduction section of the students’ theses which happened
1044 times meanwhile the total use of passive voice was 243. In conclusion,
this research highlights grammatical features that are commonly used in the
introduction section of undergraduate thesis; three tenses include simple
present tense, simple past tense, and present perfect tense; voice forms that
cover active form and passive form. Furthermore, the use of tenses types
and voice forms are influenced by the context and functions of the
introduction section. As suggestion, undergraduate students are suggested
to follow standards and trends in grammatical features used in writing the
introduction section.
Keywords: Grammatical Features, Introduction Section, Undergraduate
Thesis