Introduction.- INTRODUCING, DEFINING AND CLASSIFYING.- 1. Introducing Your Topic.- 2. Giving Brief Definitions.- 3. Classifying and Describing Characteristics.
- AIM, PROPOSITION AND TALKING ABOUT ARGUMENT.- 4. Stating Your Aim, Proposition and Scope.- 5. Talking about Proposition, Assumption, Argument, Thesis and Theory.- STRUCTURE, TIME, SEQUENCE AND FREQUENCY.- 6. Ordering and Structuring Your Ideas and Argument.
- 7. Time, Sequence, Duration and Frequency.- METHODOLOGY AND METHOD, FINDINGS, SIZE, AMOUNT, LEVEL AND PROPORTION.- 8. Describing Your Methodology and Method.- 9. Presenting Initial Data and Findings, and Stating Problems and Anomalies.- 10.
Size, Amount, Level, Capacity, Proportion and Ratio.- MOVEMENT AND CHANGE, GETTING BETTER OR WORSE, ALLOWING OR PREVENTING AND ELIMINATING.- 11. Movement, Change, Trend and Tendency.- 12. Getting Better or Worse, Bringing Back or Taking Away, Encouraging or Deterring.- 13. Allowing or Preventing, Avoiding, Exlcuding, Cancelling Out and Eliminating.
- CIRCUMSTANCE, ADVANTAGE OR DISADVANTAGE, PRESENCE OR ABSENCE AND IMPORTANCE.- 14. Circumstance, Occurrence, Normality, Norm, Deviance, Risk and Threat.- 15. Advantage or Disadvantage, Plenty or Too Much, Enough or Not Enough, Presence or Absence.- 16. Importance, Relevance, Influence and Impact.- COMMUNICATION, EXPRESSION, UNDERSTANDING, WAY OF THINKING AND POINT OF VIEW.
- 17. Communication, Expression, Signification and Portrayal.- 18. Knowledge, Understanding, Perception, Way of Thinking and Belief.- 19. Position, Point of View, Support and Opposition, Impartiality and Bias.- CAUSE AND EFFECT, DEPENDENCY, SIMILARITY AND DIFFERENCE.- 20.
Cause and Effect, Derivation, Requirement, Compatibility, Reciprocity and Dependency.- 21. Equivalence, Similarity, Difference and Diversity.- ANALYSING AND EVALUATING IDEAS.- 22. Analysing Ideas and Suggesting Common Themes.- 23. Comparing the Views of Different Authors and Describing How They Cite and Evaluate Each Other.
- 24. Evaluating an Author's Ideas Positively.- 25. Evaluating an Author's Ideas Negatively.- DRAWING YOUR OWN CONCLUSIONS, STATING YOUR OWN POSITION AND SUMMARISING YOUR IDEAS.- 26. Suggesting Counterarguments, Conceding, Disagreeing, Drawing Your Own Conclusions and Generating Your Own Ideas.- 27.
Being Precise About Your Conclusions and Expressing Certainty, Caution or Doubt.- 28. Summarising, Restating Your Ideas, and Suggesting Ability, Potential and Future Actions.- APPENDIX.- Latin Abbreviations and Phrases.- A Brief Explanation of Word Class.- Index: Section Headings and Subheadings.- Index: Words and Phrases.