Previewing
Previewing a short paper (also refer to Introducing Work)
- In this paper, I argue that …
- The aim of this paper is to …
- The central thesis of this paper is that… In this paper, I discuss the strength and weakness of …
- This paper has been divided into four parts. This first …
Previewing a chapter
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- This section will attempt to assess whether …
- This chapter is subdivided into three sections.
- In this chapter, I describe the data collection procedures and …
- The second part highlights the key theoretical concepts which …
- This chapter of the dissertation is divided into two parts. The first…
- This part of the thesis discusses the findings which emerged from …
- The purpose of this chapter is to review the literature on X. It begins by…
- This chapter is divided into four main sections, each of which presents the results relating to …
- This chapter discusses the specific methods by which the research and analyses were conducted.
Previewing a section of text
- The following is a brief description of…
- In the section that follows, it will be argued that…
- The problem of X is discussed in the following section.
- A more detailed account of X is given in the following section.
- The structure and functions of X will be explained in the following section.
- The following part of this paper moves on to describe in greater detail the…
- This introductory section provides a brief overview of… It then goes on to…
Previewing a following chapter
- The next chapter describes synthesis and evaluation of…
- A summary of the main findings, together with …, is provided in the next chapter.
- The next chapter describes the procedures and methods used in this investigation …
- In the next section, I will present the principal findings of the current investigation…
- These analytical procedures and the results obtained from them are described in the next chapter.
About Topic
Introducing a new topic or aspect of a topic
- Regarding X,…
- As regards X,…
- In terms of X,…
- In the case of X…
- With regard to X,…
- With respect to X,…
- On the question of X, …
- As far as X is concerned,…
- Another important aspect of X is …
Reintroducing a topic
- As discussed above,…
- As explained earlier,…
- As previously stated, …
- As indicated previously …
- As described on the previous page,…
- As was mentioned in the previous chapter,…
- Returning (briefly) to the (subject/issue) of X,…
- As explained in the introduction, it is clear that…
- As was pointed out in the introduction to this paper,…
Connection
Moving from one section to the next
- Turning now to …
- Let us now turn to …
- Let us now consider …
- Moving on now to consider …
- Turning now to the experimental evidence on…
- Before proceeding to examine X, it is important to…
- Before explaining these theories, it is necessary to…
- Having defined what is meant by X, I will now move on to discuss…
- So far this paper has focused on X. The following section will discuss…
- This chapter has demonstrated that…
- It is now necessary to explain the course of…
- Having discussed how to construct X, the final section of this paper addresses ways of…
- This section has analysed the causes of X and has argued that… The next part of this paper will…
Moving from one section to the next whilst indicating addition, contrast or opposition
- Another significant aspect of X is …
- In addition, it is important to ask… Unlike Smith, Jones (2014) has argued …
- In contrast to Smith, Jones (2014) maintains … Despite this, little progress has been made in the…
- However, this system also has a number of serious drawbacks.
- On the other hand, in spite of these recent findings about the role of…,
Summarising
Summarising a section or chapter
- Thus far, the thesis has argued that …
- The previous section has shown that …
- To conclude this section, the literature identifies …
- This section has reviewed the three key aspects of…
- In summary, it has been shown from this review that …
- This chapter has described the methods used in this investigation and it has…
- This section has attempted to provide a brief summary of the literature relating to …
- This chapter began by describing X and arguing that… It went on to suggest that the…
- In this section, it has been explained that…
- The chapter that follows moves on to consider the…
