Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-99.66.16.115-20200727024240/@comment-38078079-20200728173719

Fandyllic wrote:
 * "Typically, most of your sentences will be in the past tense, some will be in the present tense, and very few, if any, will be in the future tense."

Not sure why you would write mostly in present tense. I've never heard of the idea for academic writing specifically either.

I had to do a Google, but it seems different academic areas have different standards of writing, but for Arts and Humanities, at least here, present tense is the preferred tense. I suppose a lot of what's normal with tenses depends on mother tongue, academic vs. casual writing, what academia one studied, etc. It was an interesting read, anyway, but probably goes to prove it's more preference that anything, in hindsight.