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Writing and Publishing Scientific Articles
Quick Verb Tense Review
Present Tense Use the present tense for The current state of knowledge Your hypothesis* and general conclusions Present tense examples: Progressive modifications in gene expression direct the process of…. We conclude that Nkx6.1 functions as…. All four endocrine cell types derive from a common set of….
Progressive modifications in gene expression direct the process of…. We hypothesized* that Nkx6.1 is involved in β -cell formation. *When your hypothesis statement begins with “We hypothesized that…,” the verb hypothesized is in the past tense.
Past Tense Use the past tense for
Others’ subjects or experiments Your procedures and findings Past tense examples: We found that Nkx6.1 functions as…. In a similar study, Sanders et al. identified the critical pathway…. To investigate underlying molecular mechanisms, we transfected rodent hippocampal neurons with…. We used a xenograft model of a human high-grade CHSA to address this hypothesis.
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