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曼大学术写作Academiv-Phrase-Bank,对SCI英文论文写作有帮助。 A compendium of commonly used phrasal elements in academic English in PDF format
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The Academic Phrasebank is a
general resource for academic
writers. It makes explicit the more
common phraseological ‘nuts and
bolts’ of academic writing.
Academic
Phrasebank
A compendium of commonly
used phrasal elements in
academic English in PDF format
2014b edition
Dr John Morley
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©2014 The University of Manchester
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Preface
The Academic Phrasebank is a general resource for academic writers. It aims to provide the
phraseological ‘nuts and bolts’ of academic 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 was designed primarily for academic and scientific writers who are non-native speakers
of English. However, native speaker writers may still find much of the material helpful. In fact, recent
data suggests that the majority of users are native speakers of English.
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 Academic Phrasebank is not discipline specific. Nevertheless, it should be particularly useful for
writers who need to report their empirical studies. The phrases are content neutral and generic in
nature; in using them, therefore, you are not stealing other people's ideas and this does not
constitute plagiarism.
In the current PDF version, additional material, which is not phraseological, has been incorporated.
These additional sections should be helpful to you as a writer.
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Contents
Introduction: About Academic Phrasebank
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Major Sections
Introducing work 7 – 12
Referring to literature 13 - 18
Describing methods 19 - 22
Reporting results 23 - 26
Discussing findings 27 - 30
Writing conclusions 31 - 34
General Functions
Being critical 36 - 38
Being cautious 39 - 41
Classifying and listing 42 - 43
Compare and contrast 44 - 45
Defining terms 46 - 47
Describing trends 48
Describing quantities 49
Explaining causality 50 - 51
Giving examples as support 52 - 53
Signalling transition 54 - 55
Writing about the past 56 - 57
Notes on Academic Writing
Academic style 59 - 61
Commonly confused words 62 - 63
British and US spelling 64
Punctuation 65
Using articles 66 - 67
Sentence structure 68 - 69
Paragraph structure 70
Helpful tips for writers 71 - 72
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About Academic Phrasebank
Theoretical Influences
The Academic Phrasebank largely draws on an approach to analysing academic texts originally
pioneered by John Swales in the 1980s. Utilising a genre analysis approach to identify rhetorical
patterns in the introductions to research articles, Swales defined a ‘move’ as a section of text that
serves a specific communicative function (Swales, 1981,1990). This unit of rhetorical analysis is used
as one of the main organising sub-categories of the Academic Phrasebank. Swales not only identified
commonly-used moves in article introductions, but he was interested in showing the kind of
language which was used to achieve the communicative purpose of each move. Much of this
language was phraseological in nature.
The resource also draws upon psycholinguistic insights into how language is learnt and produced. It
is now accepted that much of the language we use is phraseological in nature; that it is acquired,
stored and retrieved as pre-formulated constructions (Bolinger, 1976; Pawley and Syder, 1983).
These insights began to be supported empirically as computer technology permitted the
identification of recurrent phraseological patterns in very large corpora of spoken and written
English using specialised software (e.g. Sinclair, 1991). Phrasebank recognises that there is an
important phraseological dimension to academic language and attempts to make examples of this
explicit.
Sources of the phrases
The vast majority of phrases in this resource have been taken from authentic academic sources. The
original corpus from which the phrases were ‘harvested’ consisted of 100 postgraduate dissertations
completed at the University of Manchester. However, phrases from academic articles drawn from a
broad spectrum of disciples have also been, and continue to be, incorporated. In most cases, the
phrases have been simplified and where necessary they have been ‘sifted’ from their particularised
academic content. Where content words have been included for exemplificatory purposes, these are
substitutions of the original words. In selecting a phrase for inclusion into the Academic Phrasebank,
the following questions are asked:
• does it serve a useful communicative purpose in academic text?
• does it contain collocational and/or formulaic elements?
• are the content words (nouns, verbs, adjectives) generic in nature?
• does the combination ‘sound natural' to a native speaker or writer of English?
When is it acceptable to reuse phrases in academic writing?
In a recent study (Davis and Morley, 2013), 45 academics from two British universities were
surveyed to determine whether reusing phrases was a legitimate activity for academic writers, and if
so, what kind of phrases could be reused. From the survey and later from in-depth interviews, the
following characteristics for acceptability emerged. A reused phrase:
• should not have a unique or original construction;
• should not express a clear point of view of another writer;
• depending on the phrase, may be up to nine words in length; beyond this 'acceptability'
declines;
• may contain up to four generic content words (nouns, verbs or adjectives which are not
bound to a specific disciplinary domain).
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