Hello everyone! Welcome to my channel! This is Dori, I am a teacher of English and today's video
will provide you with some useful phrases and expressions you can use in your academic writing
task 1 when you want to state similarities and differences in the diagram of course you can
use these phrases in any writing when you want to refer to similarities and differences but
let's go and check them out for academic writing task1
Firstly, let's talk about similarities
Ok, let's see words and phrases about similarities used in examples
The first word is both, you can use the word both when you refer to the similarities between two things
for example,
If you would like to use "both" in the start, in the beginning of a sentence, you can use it this way
And we move on to phrases similarly or likewise, they mean the same thing and you can use them in the
same way. Let's read the example
When you want to say something similar. Of course, commas and stuff like that that I keep saying about
they are not redundant, they are not details, they are very very important things about your punctuation
so please be careful. We use similarly with a comma, likewise with a comma immediately after.
Ok, let's move on. We can also use the phrase in the same way when we state similarities
let's read the examples
We want to compare something similar. You can also use it this way
It is the same
Another useful phrase you can use is similar trend let's see the example
So, you can change and use these phrases anyway you like when you refer to similarities
These are just examples in order to help you
Ok, and now let's go and see some useful phrases you can use when you want to refer to differences
Now, for differences these two are very useful phrases, they are used together on the one hand-on the other hand
Let's see an example of how you can use them
Ok, you can also use while to state a difference let's see the example
this is the different part
You can say the same thing with whereas let's see the example
or but in this case
As you can see you can also use but here, but in academic writing we prefer whereas because it is
a little bit more formal. Now,
All these three phrases have the same meaning and also you can use them in the same way, in the same syntactical way
Let's see the example
You can use the other phrases in the same way, for example,
Similarly or Likewise, we can use
And of course the old time favourite, however, let's see the example
of how it is used
always a comma!
And last but not least,
Let's see the examples,
this is the contrast in comparison
And if you prefer to use by contrast after a fullstop you can use it this way
and you say the different thingOk, these are just examples
that you can use accordingly, of course these phrases can be used in Academic writing task 2 as well
with different examples of course as you can understand, Use them today in your writing
and it will greatly improve! Ok, that's it for today for questions and comments here or in facebook, Twitter and Google plus
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