the cause for X

This entry was created in response to a student writing:

Once the causes for eating disorders have been fully investigated it may be possible to accurately  identify …

The reusable link is https://ske.li/causes_of and it looks like this:

the significance of evaluating

This entry was created in response to a student writing:

Recent research has highlighted the significance of evaluating Padlet’s role in education

Significance does not seem right here because what is being evaluated is a future need rather than a result. The link https://ske.li/evaluating provides a few suitable alternatives with the intended meaning, and it looks like this:

Another link here https://ske.li/stress_need shows a wider range of verbs and it looks like this:

To compare with the typical use of significance you could use the link https://ske.li/significance_of, which looks like this:

Created by Elena Mazzeri