Academic Phrasebank: A compendium of commonly used phrasal elements in academic English

Guidance. — 2015 Enhanced Edition. — The University of Manchester, 2015. — 107 p.<div class="bb-sep"></div>Having trouble phrasing what you mean to say in your essay, report, thesis or dissertation? Not sure how to be clear but succinct in explaining your rationales and findings?<div class="bb-sep"></div>If you haven’t already found it – take a look at the Academic Phrasebank – it’s full of useful, reusable, customisable phrases to help you clarify your academic writing.<div class="bb-sep"></div>The phrases in this resource have been taken from authentic academic sources. The original phrases were ‘harvested’ from 100 postgraduate dissertations completed at the University of Manchester and many more phrases have been incorporated from academic articles drawn from a broad spectrum of disciplines.<div class="bb-sep"></div>The Academic Phrasebank is a general resource for academic writers. It aims to provide you with examples of some of the standard academic phrases organised according to the main sections of a research paper or dissertation.The phrases, and the headings under which they are listed, can be used 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.