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Perfect Writing

Created: Nov 08, 2018 Onur Tunali

This post contains lists of common expressions to be used in academic writing or just in expository texts. Even though it is mostly list of conjuctions, there are usefull idioms for argumentation, expanding on your topic etc.

Personal opinion:
To list pros and cons
To list points
To add more points to the same topic
To refer to other sources
To express cause and result
To express effect
To emphasize
To express reality
To express distinction
To give example
To make a general statement
To make partially correct statement
To express limit of knowledge
To state opinions of other people
To make a contrasting point
To express balance
To clarify or rephrase
To express similarity
To express condition
To conclude
To summarize

Personal opinion:

In my view
To my mind
To my way of thinking
Personally I believe that
It strikes me that
It seems to me that
As far as I am concerned

To list pros and cons

One (dis)advantage to/of
Another (dis)advantage of
A further (dis)advantage
Main (dis)advantage

To list points

Firstly, secondly, thirdly
First of all
To start with
At the beginning
Afterwards, next, then

To add more points to the same topic

What is more
Furthermore
Apart from that
In addition
Moreover
Besides

To refer to other sources

With reference to
According to

To express cause and result

Because
Owing to
Due to the fact that
On the grounds that
Since
As
Because of

To express effect

Thus
Therefore
So
Consequently
As a result
For this reason
As a consequence

To emphasize

Clearly
Obviously
Of course
Needless to say

To express reality

It is fact that
In effect
In fact
Actually
In practice
Indeed

To express distinction

Initially
At first sight

To give example

For instance
For example

To make a general statement

As a general rule
Generally
In general
On the whole
As a main tendency

To make partially correct statement

Up to a point
To a certain extend
In a sense
In a way

To express limit of knowledge

To the best of my knowledge
As far as I know

To state opinions of other people

It is popular to believed that
People often claim that
It is often alleged that
Some people argue that

To make a contrasting point

Yet
However
Nevertheless
But
Nonetheless
Still
Although
Even though
Regardless of the fact that
Despite the fact that

To express balance

However
But
On the other hand
Although
In contrast

To clarify or rephrase

In other words
That is to say
To put it in another way

To express similarity

Similarly
Likewise
In the same way

To express condition

On the condition that
Provided that
Only if
As long as
Otherwise

To conclude

Finally
Lastly
As a conclusion
In conclusion
Taking everything into account
On the whole
All things considered
To sum up

To summarize

In short
Briefly
To put it briefly
As a conclusion