Useful Phrases for writing Academic Papers

Points to Remember While Writing

You can start writing in several ways. Some of them are:

• Introduce the definition and scope of your subject briefly.
• Explain the purpose of your writing.
• Summarize the topic and the writing pattern.

Outlining

• The primary issues covered in this writing are as follows:
• This writing is categorized into four parts which are as follows:
• First chapter discusses…
• This writing gives a brief overview of…
• The first part of this writing will discuss…

Highlighting the Keywords

• In this writing, the term XYZ will refer to…
• In this writing, the following abbreviations will be used:
• In this writing, the following acronyms will be used:
• In this writing, the following synonyms will be used:

Explaining Scope of the Topic

• Recently, there has been an increasing interest in the field of…
• The past few years have seen the rapid development of…
• Over the past century there has been a striking increase in…

Highlighting a Problem

• However, the main issue with this solution is…
• Despite the positive aspects, it has some major issues.
• There are some grave concerns that…

Highlighting a Disputation

• There has been a disagreement about…
• There is a contradiction about…
• This theory was challenged by…
• One major issue in early X research concerned…….

Highlighting a Focus

• This writing will focus on…
• The purpose of this writing is to…
• The aim of this writing is to…
• This writing attempts to …