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Elements of Academic Writing CONTENTS Elements of Academic Writing 1 1. Argument and Discussion 2 2. Cause and Effect 7 4. Comparison 13 5. Definitions 16 6. Examples 18 7. Generalizations 20 8. Numbers 23 9. Problems and solutions 27 10. Style 29 11. Tables and Figures 33 13. Working in groups 37 1. Argument and Discussion 1.1 Discussion vocabulary To evaluate the benefits and disadvantages of the topic under discussion is quite essential in an essay. Please summarize the vocabulary used in the following samples. (1) Aside from their important environmental and economic benefits, parks offer a great number of social benefits. They provide opportunities for recreation, exercise and social activities that can promote health, well-being and a sense of community. (2) One strength of this observational approach is that the habitats are ‘real’, so the observations are not influenced by the confounding effects of artificial experimental design. (3) The findings would also be useful in any future meta-analyses investigating the development of a large number of green roofs. (4) The current analysis has a number of strengths over previous inquiries into the relationship between personality and environmental concern. (5)The experimental data indicate that the method has the advantage of global convergence and high accuracy. (6) There are some limitations in this study that we hope can be addressed in the future. (7) There is a dearth of literature on the structural stability of trees grown in engineered soils. (8) One flaw associated with this method is the simplified assumption that the nearest park is the park being visited most, which is not always the case. Another flaw is that network distance is based primarily on driving route. (9) The initial study was limited to a relatively small sample of undergraduate students. The initial study was also limited by the imbalance of male and female participants, making it difficult to examine the importance of gender as a moderati