Concise PhraseBook for Writing Academic English

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 PhD

• Over 3000 phrases for academic writing
• Designed 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

Dr 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 s...