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1. Research 30. Code.
0053. Beautiful
Research Phrases
(1st Part)
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2. 1. Introducing Your Work
● The study will begin by outlining...
● This study addresses a number of issues...
● Chapters X and X concentrate on...
● 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
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3. 2. Defining Scope of Your Study
● The focus of the study is...
● The central question to be examined in this paper is...
● The study is important for a number of reasons:
● Present understanding of...is limited.
● Many authors would agree that...
● Previous studies have shown or suggested that...
● The problem has been much discussed in recent literature.
● This approach has a number of advantages: firstly,...
● The present study was designed to test the hypothesis that...
● A fuller discussion of...will appear in a later publication. 3

4. 3. Arguing For or Against
● This point is particularly relevant to...
● This becomes clear when one examines...
● This lends weight to the argument that...
● Support for this interpretation comes from...
● To put it another way,...
● This raises the question whether...
● While it may well be valid that..., this study argues the importance of...
● This begs the question why...
● A serious drawback of this approach is...
● One of the prime failings of this theory or explanation is... 4

5. 4. Reviewing Others Works
● X's study is a textbook example of...
● X's work has had a profound influence on...
● The study contains a number of new and important insights:
● X makes a strong case for...
● X takes little or no account of...
● There is little evidence to suggest that...
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6. Cont…
● It is very much an oversimplification to...
● 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.
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7. 5. Analysis and Explanation
● One tentative proposal might be that...
● If, for the sake of argument, we assume...
● One of the most obvious consequences of...is...
● This would appear to be supported by...
● There is some evidence to suggest that...
● The importance of...is demonstrated clearly by...
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8. Cont…
● Although it may well be true that..., it is important not to overlook...
● It is important to distinguish carefully between...
● It is not necessarily the case that...
● 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.
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9. 6. Summary and Conclusions
● Concluding this section, we can say that...
● Chapter X draws together the main findings of the paper.
● The study has gone some way towards understanding...
● A number of key issues have been addressed in this study.
● The results lend strong support to...
● 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.
● This raises a number of questions for future research.
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10. 7. Argue
● Along similar lines, [X] argues that ___.
● There seems to be no compelling reason to argue that ___.
● As a rebuttal to this point, it might be (convincingly) argued that ___.
● There are [three] main arguments that can be advanced to support ___.
● The underlying argument in favor of / against [X] is that ___.
● [X]‘s argument in favour of / against [Y] runs as follows: ___.
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11. 8. Claim
● In this [paper], I put forward the claim that ___.
● [X] develops the claim that ___.
● There is ample / growing support for the claim that ___.
● [X]‘s findings lend support to the claim that ___.
● Taking a middle-ground position, [X] claims that ___.
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12. 9. Data
● The data gathered in the [pilot study] suggests / suggest that ___.
● The data appears / appear to suggest that ___.
● The data yielded by this [study] provides strong / convincing evidence that
___. (yielded = generated)
● A closer look at the data indicates that ___.
● The data generated by [X] is / are reported in [table 1].
● The aim of this [section] is to generalize beyond the data and ___.
● In modern usage, data can also be treated as a mass / uncountable noun, like
information. Before you submit your work, check whether the institution
you’re writing for / on behalf of prefers data + plural verb.
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