Keep tense consistent

Tense gives a sense of time to your writing.

• Use present tense to express your ideas.
  • Essay writing skills are essential in tertiary education writing.
    
• Use past tense to state facts, make generalisations, to report or describe the work of others, or for research that is not continuing.
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• Use future tense to convey assumptions, speculations and predictions.
  • By the end of the workshop, students will be familiar with the basic structure of an essay.
• Change tense only when there is a reason to change the time frame, e.g., inserting a scenario, an example or anecdote.