Concise Phrasebook For Writing Academic English - Stephen Howe - Bog

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 layout of the PhraseBook follows the structure of academic writing, including Introduction, Method, Presenting Data, Literature Review, Arguing For and Against, Analysis and Presenting Results to Conclusions and Making Presentations It is based on the PhraseBook for Writing Papers and Research in English, which is used in more than 30 countries in subjects ranging from Medicine, Engineering, Science and Technology to Law, Business and Economics, Political Science, Geography, History, Sociology, Psychology, Language and Education Suitable for university and college writing from Bachelor to Masters and PhDOver 3000 phrases for academic writingDesigned for native and non-native speakersLayout of the PhraseBook helps you structure your textGlobal English, including British and American spellingsExercises for individual and classroom useDr Stephen Howe is a Professor at the Department of English and Graduate School of Humanities at Fukuoka University in Japan 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 The paper presented here is based in part on an earlier study 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... One of the prime failings of this theory or explanation 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. X's explanation is not implausible, if not entirely satisfactory. 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... It is important to distinguish carefully between... 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 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. The results of this study suggest a number of new avenues for research. ...