Writing and Publishing Scientific Articles Course Workbook

Cohesion and Clarity

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Avoid

Use instead

Avoid

Use instead

give consideration

consider

incline to the

think

to give rise to

view incumbent upon

cause

must

has been engaged in a studyof has the capability

has studied

initiate

begin, start

is defined as

is

can

it goes without

I

of have the

saying that I

look like

it has been

Smith reported

appearance of having regard to

reported by Smith it has long been

about affect

impact (verb)

(the author hasn’t bothered to

important

essentials

known that

look up the reference)

essentials in a number of cases in a positionto in a satisfactory

it is apparent that it is believed that

apparently

some

I think clearly

it is clear that it is clear that

can, may

(the author doesn’t understand it)

satisfactorily

much additional work will be required before a complete understanding it is doubtfulthat it is evidentthat

manner in a timely

promptly

manner in a very real sense in almost all

in a sense (or omit)

possibly

nearly always

A produced B

instances

A producedB

in case

if

it is generally

many think

in close proximity

close, near

believed

to in connection

it is my

I understand that

about, concerning

understanding that it is of interest to note that it is often the case

with in lieu of

instead of

(omit)

in many cases

often

in my opinion it is not an unjustifiable assumptionthat

I think

often

that

it is

we recommend

recommended that

in orderto in respectto in some cases

to

about

it is worth

note that

sometimes although

pointing out in this context that

in spite of the fact

that in terms of

about

it may be that

I think

in the absence of in the amount of in the event that in the first place in the not-too- distant future in the possession of in view of the fact

without

it may, however, be noted that it should benoted that it was observed in

but

for

if

note that (or omit)

first

soon

we observed

the course of these experiments that join together

has, have

because, since

that inasmuch as

join

because

lacked the ability

could not

inception

start

to

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