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writer: language: advanced language
Advanced Language
Adding points
Arguing tentatively
Asking questions
Citing
Comparing
Conceding a
point to an opposing argument (and then criticizing it)
Concluding
Criticizing
Distinguishing
Exemplifying
Explaining
Focussing
Limiting the scope
Qualifying
Referring back
Referring forward
Referring to evidence
Reformulating
Reviewing other arguments
Adding points
Again,...
Another possibility is that…
At the same time it is true to say...
In any case…
In other words…
It should also be emphasized that…
It should also be noted that…
Mention should also be made of…
Related to these arguments is the critique that…
The corollary of this is that…
The key point to note is that…
The same can be said of…
The same is true of…
There were other factors which arguably counted for more.
This in turn means that...
At the same time it could be argued that…
For one thing it could be argued that…
Indeed, it might be argued that…
It is tempting to pose another question.
It may well be asked how…
It might be argued that…
Nor is it entirely fanciful to suggest that…
Of course it could be argued that…
Still, there is no denying that…
How can we explain x?
More controversial is the question as to whether…
One way to answer this question is to try to see if…
The crucial question may therefore be…
The question remains…
Was it such a bad thing to allow y? Not necessarily.
Was x unique in doing y? Certainly not.
What are the arguments on the other side?
What sort of picture do these considerations allow us to construct?
Why for example did x happen?
According to x…
As has often been pointed out (e.g. cite authors) …
As x has argued…
As x has observed…
As x has pointed out…
As x has put it…
As x has said…
As x has shown…
As x memorably put it…
As x put it…
Few share x's view that…
In (x book) y author suggested that…
In his article (cite article) he astutely argued that…
In support of his argument x is able to quote…
In x's words:
It is usually asserted that…
Some authorities have implied that…
This is not an isolated view.
X contended/ suggested that…
X convincingly argues that…
X has called it…
X has concluded that…
X has gone so far as to speak of…
X has put it simply/bluntly…
X once defined the objective of y as…
X points to…
X was quite right when he said that…
In x by contrast…
To say that x is the same as y would be to exaggerate. But the resemblances are very close
Conceding a point to an opposing argument (and then criticizing it)
Admittedly, simply doing x is a simple method of… Yet it is not easy to see how else to assess y.
Although this argument has some merit, a number of qualifications need to be made.
In fairness to x … yet…
In one respect x's thesis that (give details) was quite wrong. However (mention plus points)…
Indeed, it is plausible to argue that… Yet, other evidence suggests…
It is certainly hard to see a plausible alternative to… Still if we look at…
It is often assumed that… However,…
It is quite true that… Yet in reality the most important factor was that…
It is true that (give details of opposing view)… However (affirm own argument)…
More credible is the argument that… However…
Moreover it is at least arguable that… Yet the extent to which x happened should not be exaggerated. What is more… In reality…
Nothing can detract from the central fact that… However what is even more surprising is that…
Some have argued that… The reality is that…
Some would say that this by itself is sufficient explanation. However…
Such explanations are too simplistic. They tend to overlook the fact that… It is also sometimes forgotten that…
Superficially there is reason to think that… However…
There is no doubt that x is true. However it is too much to claim that… Nor should it be assumed that…
There is, of course, a natural temptation to conclude that… But this was not the case. In fact… Indeed it has even been suggested by one writer that…
To be sure… (x is true), but…
All things considered then…
Events show us that…
Hence the paradox that…
How can we account for…?
If one considers x it becomes clear that…
In any case it seems clear that…
In general, however...
In short,…
In the final analysis this may be the best explanation of all.
It is difficult to escape the conclusion that…
It seems clear that…
It seems not implausible to link x with y
Judged by this criteria…
Judged by this measure…
More generally it seems hard to deny that…
Nothing can detract from the central fact that…
The extent of x is hard to quantify. Suffice it to say that…
The most popular explanation remains that…
Thus the circle from x to y seems complete.
To put it crudely…
To put it simply…
To sum up:
What is really remarkable is that…
A more fundamental objection to this argument is that...
But the evidence seems too strong to suggest that…
But there is a need for qualification…
Disproportionate attention has been paid to…
However it is not true to claim that…
Similarly, the arguments against x ignore the fact that…
Such evidence does not constitute adequate support for the theory that…
The obverse of this argument is that…
The possible flaw in this argument is…
There is another possibility which has received too little attention, namely that...
There are however a number of difficulties with this critique.
This, so it is argued, was the reason why…
Under the influence of x (author) I came to think of this view as mistaken.
Unfortunately for such theories, x was not common.
Yet there are limits to how far the idea of/concept of x can be taken.
Yet there is a need not to overstate the importance of…
Another important distinction between x and y is that...
I would like to distinguish between x and y.
The essential difference is that...
The essential point on which I differ is that...
There is however an important difference between x and y.
We must here make a distinction.
A classic illustration often cited is…
Another example of this may be given.
In the x case this was perhaps the most obvious.
More detailed studies show that…
Only in one respect does the advantage seem to be with…
Or let us take another example.
That x happened illustrates the point that…
The evidence of x is even more obvious in the case of…
The following passage may be taken as typical of this kind of evidence.
The origins of x can be traced back to…
This was by no means unique.
This was typified by…
To take yet another illustration...
Typical of x was…
A general explanation remains difficult to find/elusive.
As a result…
As for x, that would not have delivered y.
Despite the fact that x happened, it is not clear that…
For all these reasons, what x has to say needs to be treated with caution.
How are we to explain x?
Moreover it is at least arguable that…
Partly for this reason it was inevitable that…
The main reason it happened was that…
The reality was at best that…
This achievement was primarily due to…
This applies especially to…
This in turn means that...
This problem has two aspects. As regards x... As regards y... For these two reasons...
What these cases show is that...
An important point sometimes overlooked is that…
Essentially we need to look at…
I do not mean to say x, but I do mean to say y.
It is important in this context to try to distinguish between x and y.
It is important to realise that...
More importantly
Of these points, the first needs to be discussed in more detail.
One of the most important points is that...
The essential point is that...
The essential thing about x is that it has y.
The facts of the matter therefore seem clear.
The importance of this lies in the fact that...
The importance of this lies in...
The real problem was not x but y.
The significance of this is that...
There are three key points in the above theory.
There is another possibility which has received too little attention. This is the thesis that…
This is arguably the most important point:
This is the key to the problem.
This means that...
This takes us to the heart of the matter
This was one of the most important reasons why…
Two questions especially interest me. The first of these is...
Two types of x need to be distinguished: The one is... The other kind is...
Yet the important point to note is that…
But I will not consider this in the present discussion.
Without going into technical detail, it is possible to explain the broad principles of the theory.
But there is a need for qualification…
In part, this might be explained by,...
To some extent it is true to say that...
As we have seen…
As noted already…
The view put forward above explains why...
We have already seen that… However (make additional point)
We saw in the above definition that...
As will be argued in the next section…
Assuming x is the case, it remains to ask...
I would now like to have a look at...
The previous section considered only x options. Now we are going to look at…
There are various ways in which we might attempt to tackle this problem.
What are the arguments on the other side?
Without going into technical detail, it is possible to explain the broad principles of the theory.
According to the best available statistics…
As table x shows…
Figure x combines y and z
However these are of all the figures the least reliable.
However, these figures omit large numbers of people who…
If one ignores x, the figure rises to…
It will be seen at once that...
My own rough calculations summarized in table x confirm that…
One estimate puts it as high as…
Similar evidence can be found to support the view that…
Table x summarizes the best available data. It will be seen that…
The evidence is however ambiguous.
The figures show clearly that…
These figures suggest that…
We must of course treat these figures with caution.
When x is combined with y it seems that…
In other words…
A familiar objection to this argument is that…
Apologists for this line of argument remind us that…
For all these reasons, what x has to say needs to be treated with caution.
In defence of this view, a number of explanations have been offered.
It has also been persuasively argued that…
So far as x is concerned...
Such views continue to be influential.
The most modern research has provided ample support for these arguments. In particular the claim that…
The principal criticism has been that…
There is some evidence to support x's thesis.
This argument can be pursued in more detail.
This line of argument has been further developed by…
This point has been overlooked by many authors.
This problem has been dealt with by various authors...
Those who agree with this view include…
Those who fall into this camp include…
Typical of this approach is…
What are the arguments on the other side?
Whereas earlier accounts emphasized x, it is now commonly argued that…
X has been among the supporters of the view that…
X repeatedly refers to… Though it is now fashionable to criticize x, there is something to be said for…
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