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Contact us | | Example Phrases from the PhraseBook for Writing Papers and Research in EnglishThe PhraseBook for Writing Papers and Research in English contains over 5000 words and phrases, from Introducing your work, Arguing for and against, Analysis and explanation, Reviewing other work and Presenting results to Summarizing and Conclusions. A number of example phrases are given below: | Introducing your work |
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| The study will begin by outlining... | | This study addresses a number of issues... | | Chapters X and X concentrate on... | | The following section sets out... | | ...to examine the research problem in detail | | ...to shed light on a number of problem areas in current theory | | The paper presented here is based in part on an earlier study |
| Defining the scope of your study |
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| The focus of the study is... | | The central question to be examined in this paper is... | | The study is important for a number of reasons: | | Present understanding of...is limited. | | Many authors would agree that... | | Previous studies have shown or suggested that... | | The problem has been much discussed in recent literature. | | This approach has a number of advantages: firstly,... | | The present study was designed to test the hypothesis that... | | A fuller discussion of...will appear in a later publication. |
| Arguing for and against |
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| This point is particularly relevant to... | | This becomes clear when one examines... | | This lends weight to the argument that... | | Support for this interpretation comes from... | | To put it another way,... | | This raises the question whether... | | While it may well be valid that..., this study argues the importance of... | | This begs the question why... | | A serious drawback of this approach is... | | One of the prime failings of this theory or explanation is... |
| Reviewing other work |
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| X's study is a textbook example of... | | X's work has had a profound influence on... | | The study contains a number of new and important insights: | | X makes a strong case for... | | X takes little or no account of... | | There is little evidence to suggest that... | | It is very much an oversimplification to... | | The study offers only cursory examination of... | | X gives a detailed if not always tenable analysis of... | | The authors' claim that...is not well founded. | | X's explanation is not implausible, if not entirely satisfactory. |
| Analysis and explanation |
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| One tentative proposal might be that... | | If, for the sake of argument, we assume... | | One of the most obvious consequences of...is... | | This would appear to be supported by... | | There is some evidence to suggest that... | | The importance of...is demonstrated clearly by... | | Although it may well be true that..., it is important not to overlook... | | It is important to distinguish carefully between... | | It is not necessarily the case that... | | The extent to which this reflects...is unclear. | | A more plausible explanation for or of...would... | | The reason for...is unknown, but...has been suggested by X as a possible factor. |
| Summary and conclusions |
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| Concluding this section, we can say that... | | Chapter X draws together the main findings of the paper. | | The study has gone some way towards understanding... | | A number of key issues have been addressed in this study. | | The results lend strong support to... | | This study has highlighted a number of problem areas in existing theory. | | While the initial findings are promising, further research is necessary. | | This raises a number of questions for future research. | | The results of this study suggest a number of new avenues for research. |
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