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Reporting/narrating

Tense-aspect choices have become institutionalised for reporting and narrating

experiments and studies, and for stating findings and conclusions, etc. (e.g. past

simple narrating experimental procedures, 

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144c

).

Citation

Tense-aspect choices have become institutionalised for citing and quoting one’s

own work and the work of others in different ways (

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144d

).

The present simple  

144b

Abstracts/summaries

The present simple form often appears in abstracts and summaries of academic

works such as articles, chapters, dissertations, theses, essays:

This article 

looks at the effect of transoceanic migration on rural Sicilian

families. The author 

focuses on the conflicts, stresses and transformations

experienced by members of transnational families.