Sometimes a fiction writer may use the present tense to make their writing more immediate, as in this example from The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger: ‘It’s hard being left behind.

Example: “This study was conducted at the Iyarina Field School, and within the indigenous Waorani community within Yasuni National Park region.” The introduction is usually in present tense due to the ...

Use the present tense to express general truths ... and place it in the subject position. For example, should you write "The preprocessor sorts the two arrays" or "The two arrays are sorted ...