Essay on Main Body Discourse Markers

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Main Body Stage
Cause and Effect Markers Cause – This results from …
This is due to …
This may cause … to ….
The cause of ……
As a result of
On account of
Owing to
Because of
As, since
There are several reasons for this
Other causes played a part
This is a reflection of
This is attributed to

Effect – This results in …
This leads to/has lead to
The effect of
The consequence of
The result of
This produces …
This implied that
As a result
Therefore

Comparisons Markers

On the one hand, on the other hand
Whereas
If we compare …
In comparison
Similarly
Contrary to
The key difference between...
In sharp contrast to x, y is not …
Advantage and Disadvantage Markers

Advantages/disadvantages
Benefits/drawbacks
Strength/weakness
The benefits clearly outweigh the drawbacks
On the one hand/on the other hand
However/nevertheless/yet/nonetheless

Providing Example Markers

for example (e.g.) for instance (i.e.)
To illustrate this point... the best example
The following example …
Another example of this may be given.
This was typified by
To take as an example
Such as

Formal Verbs
Words for reporting information and indicating an author’s attitude:

to conclude to suppose to attribute X to Y to emphasize to acknowledge to call X into question to put emphasis on to maintain to discount to assert to claim

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