The answer to this question varies across disciplines. Your dissertation presumably falls within some academic discipline. Look at other papers in the same discipline, and see what tenses they use. For example, unlike your suggestion, in math papers the abstract is usually …
In what tense (present/past) should papers be written?
Established facts are reported in the present tense (“The path of light follows Fermat's principle of least time”). However, you should use the past tense …
Dissertations & projects: Tenses
Mostly use the present tense, unless the study is not recent and the authors are the subject of the sentence (which you should use very sparingly in a literature review) when …
What tenses should be used in the research paper and thesis? The …
Ideally, Chapter 1 (introduction) should be past tense, chapter 2 (literature) can be present or past depending on how you quote, chapter 3( methodology) definitely past tense, …
Which tense to use when presenting my master thesis?
Anything you did leading to your thesis is past tense, but anything your thesis demonstrates, i.e. your thesis shows that underwater basket weaving is still relevant (active …
Verb Tenses in Academic Writing
The perfect aspect is formed using the verb to have, while the continuous aspect is formed using the verb to be. In academic writing, the most commonly used tenses are the …
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The answer to this question varies across disciplines. Your dissertation presumably falls within some academic discipline. Look at other papers in the same discipline, and see what tenses they use. For example, unlike your suggestion, in math papers the abstract is usually …
Established facts are reported in the present tense (“The path of light follows Fermat's principle of least time”). However, you should use the past tense …
Mostly use the present tense, unless the study is not recent and the authors are the subject of the sentence (which you should use very sparingly in a literature review) when …
Ideally, Chapter 1 (introduction) should be past tense, chapter 2 (literature) can be present or past depending on how you quote, chapter 3( methodology) definitely past tense, …
Anything you did leading to your thesis is past tense, but anything your thesis demonstrates, i.e. your thesis shows that underwater basket weaving is still relevant (active …
The perfect aspect is formed using the verb to have, while the continuous aspect is formed using the verb to be. In academic writing, the most commonly used tenses are the …