This entry was created in response to a student writing:
As it is expected, many posters start those arguments individually
This reusable link – https://ske.li/as_expect – was created to illustrate this use of as expected. It looks a bit like this:
As X claims that …
This entry was created in response to a student writing:
As Chinnery (2006) claims that website applications should be tools for learning rather than tutors.
There’s something wrong with the bolded construction. The two reusables links below can help students see this. The first one is https://ske.li/wwz and it looks like this:
It may be helpful to compare the link above with this one – https://ske.li/as_x_reports – which shows how as is used in reporting sources:
Created by Elena Mazzeri
as X concluded that
This link was created in response to an issue I come across quite frequently, exemplified here:
As Beyer (2004) concluded that critical reading strategies are not only to build critical thinking…
The reusable link is https://ske.li/as_x_pointsout and it looks like this:
It might be useful for students to know which verbs are most associated with this phrase. This can be seen via a collocation list of words following as X (year), which can be found here https://ske.li/asxsayscolls and which looks a bit like this:
