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Fixed Expressions
If we look at a corpus of academic texts, we see that certain chunks of language occur very frequently in spoken and written contexts. This unit looks at some of the most useful ones.
Look at these comments written by a college teacher on assignments handed in by her students. Note the expressions in bold.
A good paper. It's clear you've spent a great deal of time researching the subject and you quote a wide range of sources.
Grade: B
Some good points here but it's not clear to what extent you're aware of all the issues involved. Global trade affects nations in a variety of ways.
Grade: C
I think you've misunderstood the topic to some extent. You've written in excess of1 3,000 words on areas that are not entirely relevant. Let's talk.
Grade: F
In this class discussion, the students make fairly general statements, while the teacher tries to make the discussion more specific.
Marsha: Well, I think on the whole parents should take more responsibility for their kids.
Teacher: Yes, with respect to1 home life, yes, but in the case of violence, surely the wider community is involved, isn't it? I mean, for the purposes of our discussions about social stability, everyone's involved, aren't they?
Marsha: Yes, but in general I don't think people want to get involved in violent incidents, as a rule at least. They get scared off.
Teacher: True. But as far as general discipline is concerned, don't you think it's a community-wide issue? I mean discipline as regards2 everyday actions, with the exception of school discipline. What do you think, in terms of public life, Tariq?
Tariq: I think the community as a whole does care about crime and discipline and things, but for the most part they see violence as something that is outside of them, you know, not their direct responsibility.
Teacher: OK. So, let's consider the topic in more detail3. I mean from the point of view of violence and aggression specifically in schools...
2 another neutral alternative to 1
3 or (more formally) in greater detail
- • The increase in house sales is due to the fact that inflation fell in 2004. At the same time, tax rate reductions were beginning to have an effect.
- • Joslav used an eight-point scale in the questionnaire, as opposed to1 a four-point one, by means of which he showed that attitudes covered a very wide range, in the sense that the results were spread very evenly over all eight points.
- • It's very difficult to interpret these data. Be that as it may2, there is some evidence of a decline in frequency. For this reason, we decided to repeat the experiment.
- • In addition to surveying the literature on population movements, we also reviewed work carried out on family names in five regions.
2 a typical academic way of saying "although I accept that this is true"; more common in speech than in writing.