W02-3: Academic phrasebank

The Academic Phrasebank of the University of Manchester offers very good lists of academic phrases and their functions in academic writing.

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Academic Phrasebank, University of Manchester

Learning log assignments

Go to this http://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk and decide on the purpose and function of each group of phrases a) - g). Spend no more than 10 min on the exercise.

a)

This study set out to …

The aim of the present research was to examine …

The purpose of the current study was to determine …

The main goal of the current study was to determine …

b)

This study has shown that …

The findings clearly indicate that …

The research has also shown that …

The second major finding was that …

c)

Overall, this study strengthens the idea that …

The current data high light the importance of …

The findings of this research provide insights for …

The results of this research support the idea that …

d)

The findings reported here shed new light on …

The study contributes to our understanding of …

These results add to the rapid!y expanding field of …

The contribution of this study has been to confirm …

e)

A limitation of this study is that …

Being limited to X, this study lacks …

The major limitation of this study is the …

This study was limited by the absence of …

f)

Several questions still remain to be answered.

A natural progression of this work is to analyse …

A greater focus on X could produce interesting findings that …

The issue of X is an intriguing one which could be usefully explored in further research.

g)

Greater efforts are needed to ensure …

There is, therefore, a definite need for …

A second broad recommendation is that …

Another important practical implication is that…