Pengembangan Sistem Pengecekan Format Skripsi dan Ejaan Bahasa Indonesia

Abstract

One of the requirements for an undergraduate degree at Bogor Agricultural University is that every student is required to write the thesis of in a form scientific paper using a predefined format. Currently, Bogor Agricultural University designed a new format of thesis writing. A system is needed to provide a thesis template and check the thesis according to the defined format to simplify the task of the student in writing the thesis and to ease the burden of the lecturers in examining the students writing. This research creates a Microsoft Office Word add-in that has three main functions: Generate New Thesis Template, Spell Checking, and Format Check. The Generate New Template function can give a new example of a thesis, user can add their need to write on the template’s file. The Spell Checking process uses Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia database to check the spelling of the thesis. The system marks any spelling or format error using the Microsoft Office Word comments. After that, the user can choose to correct or ignore the comments. This add-in application has two advantages, firstly it can simplify and shorten the student’s time for checking the format and spelling; secondly it can ease the burden of the lecturer in examining the students writing. The running time for the Spell Checking process is 20.08 seconds for 5000 words of thesis, and the Format Checking is 1.16 seconds for 20 pages of thesis.