Concise PhraseBook for Writing Academic English

Newly published, the Concise PhraseBook for Writing Academic English contains over 3000 phrases to help you write papers, reports, essays, theses and dissertations at university and college . The PhraseBook is divided into sections that follow the structure of academic writing, including Introduction, Method, Presenting Data, Literature Review, Arguing For and Against, Analysis, Presenting Results and Conclusions . The phrases are based on the PhraseBook for Writing Papers and Research in English (ISBN 1492959790), which is used in more than 30 countries worldwide. Suitable for university and college writing from Bachelor to Masters and PhD Over 3000 phrases for academic writing ed for native and non-native speakers Layout of the PhraseBook helps you structure your text Global English, including British and American spellings Exercises for individual and classroom use Sections Preface and acknowledgements Writing a bio Introducing a study or presentation The aim of your study and outlining the topic Defining the scope of your study or presentation Your method or approach Definitions, notation and terminology Presenting data Giving examples Literature review and the relationship to other work Referring to other work Reviewing other work What you agree with What you disagree with Arguing your case and putting forward ideas Arguing against Analysis and discussion Explaining and giving reasons Qualifying and hedging Quantifying Time Hypotheses and probability Rhetorical questions and addressing your audience Comparing and contrasting Tying a text or presentation together Presenting results Interpreting findings Concluding a study or presentation Summary and abstract Making a presentation > Example phrases Introducing your work The study will begin by outlining... This study addresses a number of issues... The following section sets out... ...to examine the research problem in detail ...to shed light on a number of problem areas in current theory > Arguing for and against This becomes clear when one examines... This lends weight to the argument that... Support for this interpretation comes from... While it may well be valid that..., this study argues the importance of... A serious drawback of this approach is... > Reviewing other work X takes little or no account of... There is little evidence to suggest that... 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. > Analysis and explanation If, for the sake of argument, we assume... One of the most obvious consequences of...is... Although it may well be true that..., it is important not to overlook... The extent to which this reflects...is unclear. A more plausible explanation for or of...would... > Summary and conclusions Concluding this section, we can say that... Chapter X draws together the main findings of the paper. A number of key issues have been addressed in this study. This study has highlighted a number of problem areas in existing theory. While the initial findings are promising, further research is necessary. > Also available on Amazon : PhraseBook for Writing Papers and Research in English (ISBN 1492959790)