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

Includes 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.