THE IMPACT OF ENGLISH TENSE IN CONSTRUCTING SCIENTIFIC TEXTS: AN OVERVIEW OF PRESENT SIMPLE

Abstract

This study portrays the use of present simple tense impact in constructing scientific text such as articles and more. Observation reveals that academics, students and other scientific writers struggle with the choice of an appropriate tense to be used when constructing academic texts. In essence to that, it is clear that researchers are quite battling with issues of inconsistency and lack of appropriacy of which tense to mostly use in scientific research. The secondary method employed in this study is a result of being a non-empirical paper. This depends on journal articles, textbooks, seminars and e-materials from the internet. The impact of the construct under study is to learn which tense to be used  and maintain consistency while writing a research paper for clarity of meaning and comprehensible input..  The result showcase that scientific writing is more of simple present than other tenses since it is mostly used in the abstract, main body, general statements, facts, and many more. Therefore, it can be concluded that simple present tense is more momentous and has an impact on the scientific construction of texts. Based on that this study believes that t  ability of the students, academics and any other researchers in using it will be improved especially in the construction of scientific texts in an academic arena.