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Existence Discovery Reporting verb Reported information:

Simple - Factual information that is - Emphasize that the discovery - Scientific work that is - Reporting about:
present considered true today is currently considered true/ currently relevant o Fact
- The Earth is not the center of accurate - Reporting ideas that you o Routine
the universe. - The research teams report agree with or believe to be o Current state
- Descriptions that use state reveals that Homo Naledi is true - This book explains how Galileo
verbs closely related to modern - This book explains how Galileo discovered physical evidence
- The artists sculpture of Homo humans. discovered physical evidence that the Earth rotates around
naledi looks like something that the Earth rotates around the sun.
between an ape and a human. the sun.
Present - Results of past research that - Summarizing the writing of - Reporting about
perfect are still important/ relevant many people o an accomplishment
- Can emphasize the - Not naming a specific o an action/ process that
connection between past researcher started in the past and
work and your research/ - Researchers have suggested continues in the present
writing that Homo naledi put the (could also use present
- The lead anthropologist has bones in the Rising Star Cave perfect progressive for
discovered important System on purpose. this)
features, such as human-like - The lead researcher said that
hands, that make Homo his team has been analyzing
Naledi more human-like than the fossils from the Dinaledi
other hominins. Chamber. They have already
assembled the skeletons of
three individuals.
Simple - Something that - A discovery that took place at - The information is no longer - Reporting about a past event
past existed/happened in the past a specific time in the past considered true/ accurate or sequence of events
but does not exist/happen - In 2013, Archeologists found - Prior to the discovery of Homo - Researchers have suggested
now over 1,500 fossils in the naledi, scientists believed that that Homo naledi put the
- The Catholic Church forbid the Dinaledi Chamber. Homo habilis was the ancient bones in the Rising Star Cave
publication of scientific data - The discovery is not species that had evolved into System on purpose.
that went against church considered relevant/ Homo sapiens.
doctrine. important today - The information/ ideas were
written/recorded long ago
- Galileo wrote about the rough
surface of the moon in The
Starry Messenger.
- You do not agree with the
ideas/ information you are
reporting
Sources Consulted

Conrad, S., Biber, D., Daly, K., & Packer, S. (2009). Real grammar: A corpus-based approach to English. White Plains, NY: Pearson/Longman.

Porter, P. A., & VanDommelen, D. (2005). Read, write, edit: Grammar for college writers . Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

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