PhraseBook for Writing Papers and Research in English: Over 5000 words and phrases to help you write at university and research level in English

by Stephen Howe, Kristina Henriksson

The PhraseBook for Writing Papers and Research gives you a bank of over 5000 words and phrases to help you write, present and publish at university and research level in English.Phrases are divided into around 30 main sections, such as Introducing a Study, Arguing For and Against, Reviewing other Work, Summarizing and Conclusions. Many sections are further divided, for example the Relationship to Previous Work and the Limitations of Current Knowledge (see below for example phrases). Additional sections include Writing Academic Emails and Making a Presentation.Writing Help sections give advice on university and research writing in English, helping you to avoid many common errors. Main chapters include Style, Spelling, Punctuation, Grammar, Vocabulary, Numbers and Time. These include subsections on for example Referring to Yourself, British and US Spellings, and Punctuating Quotations.The 4th edition also includes an Academic English Thesaurus to help you improve your academic vocabulary, as well as a Glossary of University and Research Terminology.The PhraseBook is used in more than 30 countries in subjects ranging from Medicine, Engineering, Science and Technology to Law, Business and Economics, Geography, History, Sociology, Psychology, Language and Education.Over 5000 words and phrases to help you write, present and publish in EnglishWritten by PhD authorsSpecially designed for non-native speakersSuitable for university and research writing from student to researcher and faculty levelIncludes most frequent words in academic EnglishExercises for individual and classroom useBritish and American EnglishExample phrasesIntroducing your workThe 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 theoryThe paper presented here is based in part on an earlier studyArguing for and againstThis 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 workX 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 explanationIf, for the sake of argument, we assume...One of the most obvious consequences of.

Genres: Writing, Nonfiction

390 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2007

Reviews

[Exavidreader · Rating 3 out of 5]

Best for those with a poor command of the English Language. Otherwise, most of the things discussed were things you already know.