links for EAP teachers
This entry was created in response to a student writing:
an accurate analysis of …
The issue here is that adjectives describing analysis normally focus on how thorough it was rather than its accuracy. The reusable link is https://ske.li/detailed_analysis and looks like this:
It may also be helpful to focus on verbs which collocate with analysis in these contexts. The re-usable link is https://ske.li/make_analysis and it looks like this:
This entry was created in response to a student writing:
The data from the questionnaires will then be evaluated by descriptive statistics to draw conclusions about…
By is not right here. The reusable link https://ske.li/evaluated, which looks like this, shows through concordance lines what normally occurs:
You might want to show where by can be used to make this a bit clearer. Here is a link with evaluated https://ske.li/be_evaluated_by which looks like this:
To show a wider range of verbs, this link https://ske.li/be_analysed_by can be used. It looks like this:
Created by Elena Mazzeri
This entry was created in response to a student writing:
This issue can be addressed by two ways
The re-usable link is https://ske.li/number_ways and it looks something like this:
Of course, it’s not just numbers between in and ways. Here’s a concordance that shows some other options https://ske.li/in_x_ways. It looks like this:
A different way of viewing the variety of forms of this phrase is via a list of the most frequently found realisations, as shown in this link https://ske.li/in_ways_freq, which looks like this:
