List of Academic Vocabulary Used for Writing Abstracts, Making Summaries and Preparing Reports.

As the title implies the article describes …

The author concentrates on …

He (she) presents a general picture of …

The description of … … is based on …

The article seems to be of particular interest to an audience of (interested in chemistry, mathematics, physics …) students.

The asserted purpose of the present paper is to answer the question …

In the attempt to give an account of … the author offers a survey of modern interpretation of the problem …

The paper acquaints the reader with the efforts of theorists (theoreticians) to define … .

Though the paper is … the general reader will find a wealth of information … which makes the article attractive and useful …

The paper discusses the application of …

The reader will find the book (research article, volume) useful (helpful, interesting, attractive) of particular (special, great, interest) importance (significance, value).

In the reviewed book (paper) the method (theory, discussion, treatment) of … is presented.

The purpose (aim, object) of the book (publication, paper, article, monthly, journal) under review (discussion, consideration) is to survey, explain, describe, provide, to examine, give…)

The scope (object) of the journal is (aims at providing a broad view of the subject) … a critical review of, to publish important and topical results or fundamental research in the field of …

Opposite views on … open a range of hypotheses which can explain the phenomenon.

… is presented by 2 points of view that … and the more prevalent view that …

No view is discredited, both are supported by …

The attempts are made …

However, preference is given to the belief that …

The paper does not give information on the applicability of the theory used …

The method proposed by … is applicable to the actual analysis.

The same concepts apply to all forms of …

The author discusses (considers, determines, outlines, gives, proves, solves, extends, derives the theory (examples, method, the development).

The author thinks, supposes, estimates, claims, believes, considers, assumes, argues, notices, announces, points out, shows, states, emphasizes, reports, asserts, concludes, declares, confirms (that) …

The concept of … is given by …

Footnotes to a table (the title) are indicated by … (symbols) …

The apparatus (the table) is shown, given in Figure I (Table II).

As can be seen from this figure (table) that …

The measurements shown in Figure II illustrate…

Results reproduced (introduced) in Table II show…

The problem is stated (is discussed, has been discussed by) …

References to … are numbered (are indicated by) …

Bibliography is a list of references (books, writings).

The subject field of a periodical embraces (covers, provides, encourages, is designed (to), is intended, is developed (to), is concerned with, is published for, contains, includes, combines, explores, examines, concerns, records, summarizes, suggests).

The concluding remark emphasizes that …

In the reviewed paper the author has succeeded in showing (providing, presenting …) the…

The method (procedure, approach, idea or result) seems to have practical interest (value) to …

The method proves (permits, agrees with the measurement) … is based on, is stated, is applied, is developed, is derived from, is outlined …

However, the subject (applicability) is (seems) doubtful to …

In spite of … this method (the article) is (seems) …

The author (editor, publisher, proofreader) is to blame for …

The author failed to show (exhibit, provide, present, give a account of, direct our attention to …)

The problem considered is the determination of …

The (principal) results obtained (arrived at) confirm, show, lead to, coincide with …)