The student phrase book : vocabulary for writing at university / Jeanne Godfrey.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction -- Introducing, defining and classifying. Introducing your topic -- Giving brief definitions -- Classifying and describing characteristics -- Talking about aim and proposition. Stating your aim, proposition and scope -- Talking about proposition, assumption, thesis and theory -- Structure, time, sequence and frequency. Ordering and structuring your ideas and argument -- Time, sequence, duration and frequency -- Methodology and method, findings, size, amount, level and proportion. Describing your methodology and method -- Presenting initial data and findings, and stating problems and anomolies -- Size, amount, level, capacity, proportion and ratio -- Movement and change, getting better or worse, allowing or preventing and eliminating -- Circumstance, advantage or disadvantage, presence or absence, and importance. Circumstance, occurrence, normality, norm, deviance, risk and threat -- Advantage or disadvantage, plenty or too much, enough or not enough, presence or absence -- Importance, relevance, influence and impact -- Communication, expression, understanding, way of thinking and point of view. Communication, expression, signification and portrayal -- Knowledge, understanding, perception, way of thinking and belief -- Position, point of view, support and opposition, impartiality and bias -- Cause and effect, dependency, similarity and difference. Cause and effect, derivation, requirement, compatibility, reciprocity and dependency -- Equivalence, similarity, difference and diversity -- Analysing and evaluating ideas. Analysing ideas and suggesting common themes -- Comparing the views of different authors and describing how they cite and evaluate each other -- Evaluating an author's ideas positively -- Evaluating an author's ideas negatively -- Drawing your own conclusions, stating your own position and summarising your ideas -- Appendix: Latin abbreviations and phrases -- A brief explanation of word class -- Index: section headings and subheadings -- Index: words and phrases.

To write successfully at university you need to communicate your ideas clearly and effectively; imprecise or incorrect word use will lessen both the clarity and the credibility of your work. This book gives you an accessible 'way in' to words and phrases used in academic writing. It will help you to express your ideas, arguments and evaluations clearly and precisely, and to produce successful written work. The Student Phrase Book: * Presents over 1,000 mid- to advanced-level words and phrases common to writing across disciplines * Presents these words and phrases within the context of common writing functions and sentences so that you can see why and how they are used * Gives definitions and other important information for many of the words presented, concentrating on the words that most often cause problems * Explains the differences in meaning and use between commonly confused words * Shows you what other words surround the key word, so that you can use it with confidence * Is for anyone who is not totally familiar with writing at university, whatever their discipline or level of study.