Tips to avoid past tense in a thesis?

Question

I'm a non-native speaker and currently writing on a thesis in English. I'm struggeling to avoid the past tense. Accoriding to my advisor I'm supposed to write the thesis in present tense. But this makes sentences like: > ... are already described in section XYZ. wrong, right? It would be great to get some general advice how to avoid this. PS: Can I use past tense for summaries?

Answer 1

So for this question, I would recommended rewriting any examples you may think would be most changed or effected by the present tense of you thesis first. I usually helped my friends and fellow students with thesis questions, as they are pretty complicated. You could write out a few "test runs" of new examples of a present tense thesis and choose the one that works best for all of your examples and makes the most sense.

I hope this helped and good luck on your essay.