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What is the correct tense to use in an academic paper when speaking about correspondence? Say one of my source materials is a letter written by someone named William, in which he says he went to t...
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2019-12-08T02:14:54Z (over 4 years ago)
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denishaskin
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2019-12-08T02:14:54Z (over 4 years ago)
What is the correct tense to use in an academic paper when speaking about correspondence? Say one of my source materials is a letter written by someone named William, in which he says he went to the store. Would I say > William writes that he went to the store. or > William wrote that he went to the store. If William was an author and I was discussing a book he wrote, it would be the former. Is that true for correspondence as well?
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2012-03-09T17:09:03Z (about 12 years ago)
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