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ELS02 (Appendix of lecture X02) 2° Semester
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Useful Phrases
The lists below offer general phrases that can be used in many kinds of research papers. For mastering the
terminology and phraseology specific to a field, regular reading of the relevant literature is necessary.
1. Abstract
As the Abstract is a short version of the paper, some of the phrases used in the other parts of the paper are also
used in the abstract and are not mentioned here. You can find them below under
+h section of the paper
hints on how to start the Abstract follow:
Introductory sentences
The paper/article
discusses/deals with/analyses/considers/explains/describes/establishes/introduces
develops/presents/provides/studies/represents/features/contains/concentrates on
covers/suggests/proposes/shows
demonstrates the feasibility of
opens up a new field/issue
gives/aims to give a comprehensive a
offers a solution to
serves as an introduction to
The main objective/goal/purpose of the paper/article
Common mistakes:
Wrong: Righ
In this paper there/it is presented a novel This paper presents a novel method of
method of ..... In this paper, a novel method of ..... is presented
2 Introduction
In most cases, the Introduction section is treated as a whole and is not divided into subsections. The
subheadings below should only help you organize the information.
2.1, Problem background, state of the art
plays an importantvital role in .
is an important issue for
is extensively/widely used in
.. isa very effective method for
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In the last few years there has been a growing interest in
Quite recently, considerable attention has been paid to
haveshas been gaining importance in recent years
haverhas been utilized in many applications such as
2.2, Literature review/Summary of previous research
Referring to the sources in general
Current research on ..... is focused on
Previous studies indicate that
The literature on ...., shows a variety of approaches
Much research on has been done.
The focus of recent research has been on
«+ has/have been widely researched/investigated.
In recent years, research on/into ..... has become very popular.
In the last decade ..... has attracted much attention from research teams ....
For several years great effort has been devoted to the study of
Several publications have appeared in recent years documenting
Previous research has documented/shown/demonstrated that
To solve this problenvissue, many researchers have proposed various methods of (+-ing)
In the literature, several theories have been proposed to explain
2.3. Referring to individual authors
and .... are discussed in [3] and [6]
X [4] and ¥ [3] indicate that
X et al. [1] argue that
One of the first examples of ..... is presented in [2].
Another/The latest solution is described in [3].
The results obtained/offered by X in [5] suggest that
Recently, several authors [4], [5], [7] have proposed (a new theory)
X [2] and X [5] have demonstrated that ..
AJThe mos
interesting approach to this
issue has been proposed by [2]
X [6] has also found that ...... However, our researchers have arrived at the conclusion/have concluded that
.. Was experimentally measured by [7].
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X et al. [7] studied ..... and showed that
X [11] developed a novel sensor using
In this work and in related references it was observed that
In [8] it was shown that
As reported by X [2].
Ina recent paper by X [9],
2.4, Saying that little research has been done in a particular field
However, to the author’s/authors’ best knowledge, very few publications can be found/are available in the
literature that discuss/address the issue of
To the author’s/authors’ knowledge, ..... has/have been scarcely investigated from the point of view of
/from the theoretical point of view.
2.5. Pointing out li
tations of previous research
A key limitation of this research is that (it does not address the problem of .....)
The major drawback of this approach is
However, most of the previous studies do not take into account .....
This approach may not be practical/orthodox/conventional in all situations.
Reference [3] analyses and compares various aspects of ..... . Nevertheless, there are still
some
jeresting and relevant problems to be addressed.
However, studies on ..... are still lacking,
The problem with this approach is in that it
Although several studies have indicated that ..... little attention has been paid/given to
2.6. Problem statement, purpose/main objective of the paper
Problem statement and description of the objective of the paper are very specific parts of the paper and the
phrases used depend on the nature of the problem. Examples showing how closely this partis related to the
literature review and previous research are given below.
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dealing with .....: 1) It is important to (identify .....). 2) Itis key to (predict .....). 3. It is erucial to (establish
_ theory of .....) has recently been presented in [....]. However, several practical questions arise when
when .....). To answer alll these questions, we present an original approach which
Even though (the efficiency of .....) has been improved in recent years, most improvements have been achieved
by (minimizing the amount of energy lost in .....). Nonetheless, it is possible to further improve (the efficiency
by .....). With this goal, this work (explores, seeks to .....).
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Based on the approach presented in [3], the purpose of this paper is to
In this paper, while we refer to our earlier work [2], [3], and [4], the focus is different.
Like most author
we
The objective/aim of this paper/study is to propose
The paper presents/proposes a new approach to .
This article introduces a new type of
In this paper, welthe authors offer
In this paper, we explore the possibility of
In this study, a new technique that improves ..... is suggested. See also Abstract, Introductory sentences.
2.7. Framework of the paper (usually the last part of the Introduction)
The remainder of the paper is organized as follows/into ..... sections:
Section II describes/outlines ....., Section III discusses/analyses ..... . (Experimental results) are presented in.
Section IV; Section V concludes the paper.
In Section I, ..... will be discussed. Section III is devoted to
Section IV presents (the experimental
results), The conclusion is reported in Section V.
The proposed (design) is discussed in Section II (The implementation of the proposed design) is presented in
Section III. Section IV shows (the experimental results of...)
Finally, Section V concludes with a summary.
In Section II we explain In Section III we introduce our The measurements are presented in Section
IV. Section V summarizes the results of this work and draws conclusions.
3. Materials and Methods/Methods of Approach
3.1. Describing what was done and how it was done
We started by investigating ...
We designed a new technique for .
We used a new approach.
These experiments were carried out to find out .....
In order to verify the validity of the ..... method, we carried out several experiments.
Al the tests/measurements were carried out at room temperature.
The (signals) were measured before and after
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The ..... analysis was performed in order to
We checked for the presence of
(The chemical structure of ....) was examined by (the ..... technique).
A gradual change (in temperature) was observed.
The increase in
The (optimized condition) was obtained from
3.2. Describing numerical methods
ibes
is as follows:
The equation that des
Equation (2) represents/defines/expresses
The equation can be written as ....., where
Thus, the following equation is obtained:
..can be computed by the following equatior
Equations (5) and (6) approximate (the original formulas).
.. satisfies equation (3).
Equations (2) and (3) demonstrate that
(3) implies that ..
.. is described by (5)
The function fis given/defined by.
Let f be given/defined by
To simplify (3) we can
For simplicity we ignore the dependence of ..... on
It follows from (3) that
Substituting/inserting (4) and (6a) in(to) (6b), we obtain
Substitution/Insertion of (4) in(to) (5) yields .....
Now we can derive ..... according to (2)
We can now proceed analogously to
This holds for
This is true for .
Similarly, (5) is also valid/true for the following relation
Assume/Let us assume that (3) holds for
(6) holds under the condition that
We will make the following assumptions
s/o
was not caused by/was not due to a decrease in .....
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From now on we assume that
Let us define the following dependence/relation by/as,
Let (3) satisfy the following relation
Equality holds in (10) if and only if
The inequality is satisfied if and only if .....
We shall write the above expression as ...
In this way we obtain
According to (5) we have/obtain
is obtained as ...../can be obtained as .
is denoted (M) and defined as
takes the form can be written in the form
As is clear from (5,)
We first prove that ...../Let us first prove that .
It remains to prove that
It is clear/evident/obvious that .....
From this we conclude/see/deduce that
3.3. Referring to/Describing figures, graphs, tables, diagrams
Fig. 2 shows/presents/depicts/outlines/illustrates/represents
Fig. 3 gives an example of
Such cases are depicted in the following figures.
This is illustrated in Fig. 5.
is/are shown/given in Figs. 3 and 4.
..can be found in Fig. 8.
Consider Fig. 2, which plots ..... versus/agai
‘As can be scen from Figs. 5 and 3,
As shown in Fig. 1,
As follows from the figures shown above, .....
From this figure it can be seen that
For the resulting plot, see Fig. 2.
For visual representation of the dependence ..... the reader is referred to Tables V and VI.
Table II summarizes
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The graph/diagram suggests/indicates that
Common mistake
Wrong Right
As shown in the Fig. 1 As shown in Fig. 1
The Fig. 2 presents ..... Fig. 2 presents .....
4, Results
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Some of the phrases listed under Materials and Methods may also be suitable for the Results section, e.g.
summarizing what was done, referring to diagrams, graphs, ete.
Ithas been found that .
The results show that
The results thus obtained are compatible with
The overall measurement results are summarized in Table II.
As mentioned earlier/above,
The previous sections have shown that
This method is based on
The method was tested on
The method is an effective way to improve
The analysis and simulation indicate that
The .... analysis plays a crucial role in
As may be seen below,
We have introduced a new approach to
A similar approach is used for
This approach may fail iffdue to
One of the big advantages of (this approach/method) ..... is that...
To verify this method, ..... is compared with
The only disadvantage/drawback of such ..... is
and.
There is no evident relationship between
are in good agreement/correspond with
There is a good match between ..... and
To illustrate the result, a simulation of ..... was performed.
The simulation results match the calculations.
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The differences in (temperature) result in significant differences in
The decrease/increase in ..... can be contributed to
To overcome/avoid this problem/difficulty, it is necessary to adopt a
One possible solution to this problem is to (use)
This solution requires ....
5. Discussion
For more phrases see also Introduction and Conelusi
5.1, Stating the main objective
In this paper we propose/examine/study
This paper proposes/has proposed
The purpose of the paper/study is to
The paper presents/has presented several solutions to ...
This paper is a modest contribution to the ongoing discussions about/on
It was the main purpose of the paper to draw attention to
The main concern of the paper was to ....
In our paper, the focus of attention was
This study shows/has shown that
This experiment/technique/demonstrates that ..
5.2. Speci
1g the objective
Particular attention is paid to
The author's attention was focused/concentrated not only on ..... but also on
We have addressed not only ..... but also .....
We have also considered the consequences of
5.3, Pointing out the originality of the solution
Our paper presents an innovativela novel view of .
The originality of our solution lies in the fact that
This is a novel solution to
Our results describe for the first time the
To our knowledge, this is the first study to deal with/examine/investigate
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Only one other study, to our knowledge, has come up with
This paper presents a pilot study to find the answer to
Our observations that ..... are not new, but
5.4, Interpreting the facts
The data obtained is/are broadly consistent with the major trends
These results agree/concur/are consistent/are in good agreement with other studies which have shown that
In contrast to some reports in the literature, there were
An important implication of these findings is that .
The finding was quite unexpected/surprising and suggests that .
The most likely explanation of the negative result is
The findings have a number of possible limitations, namely
So far, the significance of this finding is not clear.
5.5, Stating the limitations of the research
The main limitation of the experimental result is,
One question still unanswered is whether
The analysis does not enable us to determine
These results are not conclusive.
6. Conclusion(s)
The Conclusion(s) section usually starts with
6.1. Stating the objective
The objective presented in the Conclusion(s) section should agree with the objective stated in the Introduction.
For suitable phrases see Introduction and Discu
ion.
6.2. Drawing conclusions
From the research that has been carried out/done/conducted/performed/undertaken, it is possible to conclude
that
Based on the results, it can be concluded that the research into ..... has been very successful
From the outcome of our investigation it is possible to conclude that
The findings of our research are quite convincing, and thus the following conclusions can be drawn:
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Summing up the results, it can be concluded that
In conclusion, it is evident that this study has shown
This paper has clearly shown that
It has been demonstrated/shown/found that
The results/data obtained indicate/have indicated/suggest/show that .
The existence of (these effects) implies that .....
6.3. Suggesting possible application(s)
The proposed method can be readily used in practice.
The technique/approach/result is applicable to
can be successfully used for a number of ..... applications.
The/our ..... has great potential for other applications such as
This research was concerned with .....; however, the results should be applicable also to ....
The findings suggest that this approach could also be useful for
The findings are of direct practical relevance.
6.4, Suggesting further research
In our future research we intend to concentrate on .....
Future work will involve
On the bs
of the promising findings presented in this paper, work on the remaining issues is continuing and
will be presented in future papers.
The next stage of our research will be (experimental confirmation of our theory).
Further study of the issue would be of interest.
Clearly, further research will be needed/required to prove/validate
Several other questions remain to be addressed/resolved.
More research into ..... is still necessary before obtaining a definitive answer to
Further study of the issue is still required
Further research on/into
is desirable/necessary (to extend our knowledge of)
Continuing/continued research on/into ..... appears fully justified because
More tests/experiments/calculations will be needed to verify whether
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