Section VI research paper

The final aim of post-graduates studies is submission of the dissertation for hearing at the session of the Academic Council concerned. On the eve of the defense procedure abstract of the thesis is to be issued, it being a digest of the research made. In the abstract a researcher is to present certain scientific points since abstracts are designed in accordance with the established pattern.

Thus, you should be able to state the purpose of your investigation, define its subject, object, describe the methods applied, to ground its topicality and novelty, underline the results obtained, state your personal findings, the practical value and possibilities for further research and application.

In the present section we’ll introduce to you the lexical means to help you speak on the topic of your research and supply you with the extractions from scientific papers on the issue in question.

1. Presenting the topic of your research.

n.:	study, investigation, research, paper
v.:	to deal with, to be devoted (to), to study, to investigate, to undertake, to examine
adj.:	detailed, thorough, extensive, comprehensive, preliminary, brief
adv.:	in detail, thoroughly, carefully, accurately

The paper deals with…

The study in devoted to…

The investigation studies…

The research of … is dealt with in the paper.

An extensive study of the problem of… has been undertaken in the paper.

A comprehensive analysis of … has been presented in the research.

The case of … has been thoroughly studied in the research.

The investigation deals with…

… are dealt with in detail in the present research.

2. Defining the purpose of the research.

n.:	aim, purpose, task
v.:	to determine, to reveal, to establish, to describe, to provide, to present, to be designed (for) …, to be intended…, to be aimed (at) … .
adj.:	main, chief, primary, principal
conj.:	in order, so that

The aim of the study is to determine the value …

The research is aimed at revealing the ways of …

The main purpose of the paper is to establish the regularities in … / the difference in …

The investigation is designed to simplify the procedure of …

The chief task of the research is to reveal the causes of…/ the essence of …

The research is intended for eliminating ambiguity … / undesirable effect …

The research is aimed at providing evidence for … / new facts in support of …

The aim of the investigation is to present systematic description of …

3. Explaining the topicality and novelty of the research:

n.:	topicality, novelty, advantage, merit, comparison (of … with), innovation
v.:	present, offer, combine, compose, resemble
adj.:	fundamental, chief, main, essential, obvious, certain, ordinary, standard, former, previous, expected, analogous (to), similar (to), identical (with)
adv.:	formerly, previously, usually, commonly (used)

We offer a fundamentally new approach…

The essential merit of our work is …

The approach is not similar to that previously used …

The novelty of the research can be seen …

The research compares favorably with …

Explanation is offered for …

Since previous works suffered from considerable limitations …

We tried to interpret the phenomenon of …

We intended to overcome the difficulty of …

Advantages and limitations of … are discussed for the first time …

In contrast to identical works in the field of … our understanding provides …

As opposed to commonly recognized classification …

Unlike commonly recognized definition of …

4. Describing methods applied.

n.:	method, technique, approach, procedure
v.:	apply, present, follow, employ, use, allow, permit
adj.:	general, main, additional, modern, appropriate, reliable, effective, improved, promising, adequate, up-to-date, conventional, unconventional

Modern methods of scientific analysis have been applied…

Unconventional approach to … has been presented in the paper.

Appropriate technique has been used …

Reliable methods of analyzing facts of …

The comparative method is useful in …

Methods of empirical and systematic analysis were used …

The approach is especially helpful when …

The approach is more flexible and permits …

The methods of synchronic and diachronic analysis used in the study allow/permit…

The technique is best suited in evaluating …

Comparison is made of the method generally adopted with that used in the investigation.

We have applied an alternative method which …

5. Describing your findings.

n.:	theory, hypothesis, correlation, discrepancy, assumption, findings, data, evidence, viewpoint, model, function, basis, dependence, influence, effect, interrelations
v.:	assume, present, provide, report, check, produce, verify, extend (to), find, establish, generate, produce, reveal
adj.:	primary, simple, complicated, accurate, satisfactory, certain, preliminary, convincing, contradictory, ambiguous, similar, general, complete, full, variable
adv.:	especially, particularly, specially

It was found that …

The data obtained enables us to determine the nature of …

Our findings provide evidence for …

Our findings make possible the application of …

An analysis of … indicated that …, which made is possible …

The principal advantage of the approach based on …

Of special importance for … is …

Of particular value for … is …

The present observation supports the viewpoint …

Obviously, it’s due to the fact that …

The influence of … on … has been revealed.

Little dependence of … on … has been observed.

This phenomenon is closely connected with …

The validity of the assumption was questioned …

The study has revealed a better understanding of …

based on …

These discrepancies are caused by …