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Blog posts found: 3
2019
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Creating a Research Space
Swales’ Create-a-Research-Space (CARS) model of research article introductions Just as plants compete for light and space, so writers of research papers compete for acceptance and recognition. In order to obtain…
Andrew Goodall
3 min read
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The importance of topic sentences
A topic sentence states or summarizes the main idea of a paragraph. The tendency to place topic sentences at the beginning of paragraphs can seem rather simplistic and even boring…
Pamela Cotte
Resources
Manchester Academic Phrasebank
The freely available online Academic Phrasebank contains hundreds of sentence templates for the rhetorical moves typically used in academic dissertations and research papers. (A ‘rhetorical move’ is realized in a…
Andrew Goodall
4 min read
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