The Academic Phrasebank: an academic writing resource for students and researchers

The Academic Phrasebank: an academic writing resource for students and researchers

A general resource for academic writers. It aims to provide you with examples of some of the phraseological ‘nuts and bolts’ of writing organised according to the main sections of a research paper or dissertation (…). Other phrases are listed under the more general communicative functions of academic writing (…). The resource should be particularly useful for writers who need to report their research work.The phrases, and the headings under which they are listed, can be used simply to assist you in thinking about the content and organisation of your own writing, or the phrases can be incorporated into your writing where this is appropriate. In most cases, a certain amount of creativity and adaptation will be necessary when a phrase is used. The items in the Academic Phrasebank are mostly content neutral and generic in nature; in using them, therefore, you are not stealing other people’s ideas and this does not constitute plagiarism. For some of the entries, specific content words have been included for illustrative purposes, and these should be substituted when the phrases are used. The resource was designed primarily for academic and scientific writers who are non-native speakers of English.

Table of contents : A)Major sections:
Introducing work
Referring to sources
Describing methods
Reporting results
Discussing findings
Writing conclusions

B)General FunctionsBeing critical
Being cautious
Classifying and listing
Compare and contrast
Defining terms
Describing trends
Describing quantities
Explaining causality
Giving examples as support
Signalling transition
Writing about the past
Writing abstracts
Writing acknowledgements

C)Notes on Academic WritingAcademic style
Style in presentations
Commonly confused words
British and US spelling
Punctuation
Using articles
Sentence structure
Words for connecting ideas
Paragraph structure
Helpful tips for writers

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