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Useful Expressions in Writing

This document provides useful expressions for writing in five categories: 1) Stating your position, 2) Presenting your point of view, 3) Supporting your view, 4) Agreeing or disagreeing with a statement, and 5) Drawing a conclusion. For each category, it lists common transitional phrases and statements that can be used such as "This essay aims at...", "I strongly believe that...", "Furthermore...", "I do not agree with..." and "To conclude...". The expressions are intended to help structure arguments and state positions in academic writing.

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Useful Expressions in Writing

This document provides useful expressions for writing in five categories: 1) Stating your position, 2) Presenting your point of view, 3) Supporting your view, 4) Agreeing or disagreeing with a statement, and 5) Drawing a conclusion. For each category, it lists common transitional phrases and statements that can be used such as "This essay aims at...", "I strongly believe that...", "Furthermore...", "I do not agree with..." and "To conclude...". The expressions are intended to help structure arguments and state positions in academic writing.

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Mob.

97796 04974

Stratford
Institute of Languages
Dream Complex (Chandigarh Market), Bagha Purana Road, N. S. Wala (Moga)

USEFUL EXPRESSIONS IN WRITING

1. Stating your own position on a Subject or Topic

• This essay aims at...


• This essay is concerned with...
• The aim of this point is to…
• The point of discussing this argument is to…
• It shall be argued in this essay that…
• The view presented in this essay is that..

2. Presenting your own point of view

• I strongly believe that...


• To my mind...
• As I see it....
• It seems to me evident/obvious that...
• I feel that...
• I think/contend that...
• There are many reasons why…
• It is important/necessary to point out that…
• The first thing to be considered is…
• It is a fact that…
• At initial stage, it is very important to discuss that…

3. Supporting your view and adding more information:

• The first/second reason why…is…


• Firstly/Secondly...
• not only ...but also...
• The most important thing in this is that…
• In addition, …
• Furthermore, …
• What is more, …
• Another reason is …
• A further point is …
• Taking this discussion towards an advanced stage, we can add that…..
• It is very difficult to deny that…

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Mob. 97796 04974

Stratford
Institute of Languages
Dream Complex (Chandigarh Market), Bagha Purana Road, N. S. Wala (Moga)

4. Agreeing/ Disagreeing with the Statement

• I do not agree with the statement that...because...


• I do not think that the idea presented in this statement is accurate...because...
• I strongly stand with the idea presented in the statement that…because…

• The reasoning given in this statement is questionable because….


• One of the main arguments against this statement is that …
• The idea which has been put forward in this statement is somewhat inadequate/ inaccurate/
insufficient because…
• There is some doubt that…

5. Drawing a Conclusion

• To sum up, ...


• In a nutshell, ...
• As a conclusion, ...
• As a summary, ...
• All in all, ...
• To conclude, ...
• In conclusion…
• On the basis of the above discussion we can easily confer that…
• After discussing merits and demerits of both sides, we can come to a conclusion that both
approaches/opinions appear helpful with a few shortcomings on their sides.
• Therefore, after looking at all the above mentioned opinions closely, it can be concluded
that…
• The outcome of the above discussion leads us to say that…

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