1.2 The Problems of Writing
It is very often can be found that different writers will write different structures while they are writing the messages to their readers. Therefore the
writer of this paper is very eager to find out the description of the tenses they applied in sending the messages to their readers through The Jakarta Post
newspaper deal with the news ‘Rupiah leads fall in Asian forex markets’ and Harsh V. Pant ‘India challenges old assumptions’. So the description will be dealt
with: 1
How many tenses are applied by the journalists in writing the news? 2
What are the names of the tenses applied? 3
What are the percentages of the tenses applied?
1.3 The Scopes of Writing
In writing a skill writing there can be many different things to be written, therefore in writing this simple paper the writer wants to give the scope of writing.
Since the title of this writing is The Description of Tenses Used by the Journalists: Bloomberg and Harsh V. Pant of course the limitation of the writing is dealt with
the tenses applied while they are sending their news to their readers.
1.4 The Purposes of Writing
When someone wants to do an activity, for instance, writing a paper of course he or she has already had his or her goal or purpose. Therefore the
purposes of writing this kind of writing are:
1 to find out the numbers of the tenses used by the journalists of the newspaper
The Jakarta Post which was published on Saturday, March 14
th
, 2015 Bloomberg in telling that ‘Rupiah leads fall in Asian forex markets’ and
Harsh V. Pant ‘India challenges old assumptions’, 2
to find out the names of the tenses used by; 3tofulfill one of the requirements to finish the writer’s study from the
department of English of the diploma program at the faculty of culture study of the North Sumatera University;
4 to apply the knowledge she received during her study at the department from all of her adventures lecturers, and;
5 to enrich her understanding on the ideas of the newspaper journalists messages written by.
1.5 TheMethods of Writing