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To help move away from summary and toward ANALYSIS, it’s important to incorporate strong verbs into your writing when discussing the writer’s rhetorical choices. Below is a list of verbs that are considered weak (imply summary) and a list of verbs that are considered strong (imply analysis). Strive to use the stronger verbs in your essays to help push yourself away from summary and toward analysis: ex “The writer flatters…” NOT “The writer says…”

Weak Verbs (Summary):

says 

explains

relates 

states 

goes on to say 

shows 

tells 

this quote shows

Strong Verbs (Analysis):

Argues, admonishes, analyzes, compares, contrasts, defines, demonizes, denigrates, describes, dismisses, enumerate, expounds, emphasizes, establishes, flatters, implies, lionizes, lists, minimizes, narrates, praises, processes, qualifies, questions, ridicules, suggests, supports, trivializes, vilifies, warns       

Powerful and Meaningful Verbs to Use in an Analysis (Alternatives to Show): 

Acknowledge, Address, Analyze, Apply, Argue, Assert, Augment

Broaden

Calculate, Capitalize, Characterize, Claim, Clarify,Compare, Complicate, Confine, Connect, Consider, Construct, Contradict, Correct, Create, Convince, Critique

Declare, Deduce, Defend, Demonstrate, Deny, Describe, Determine, Differentiate, Disagree, Discard, Discover, Discuss, Dismiss, Distinguish, Duplicate

Elaborate, Emphasize, Employ, Enable, Engage, Enhance, Establish, Evaluate, Exacerbate, Examine, Exclude, Exhibit, Expand, Explain, Exploit, Express, Extend

Facilitate, Feature, Forecast, Formulate, Fracture

Generalize, Group, Guide

Hamper, Hypothesize

Identify, Illuminate, Illustrate, Impair, Implement, Implicate, Imply, Improve, Include, Incorporate, Indicate, Induce, Initiate, Inquire, Instigate, Integrate, Interpret, Intervene, Invert, Isolate

Justify

Locate, Loosen

Maintain, Manifest, Manipulate, Measure, Merge, Minimize, Modify, Monitor

Necessitate, Negate, Nullify

Obscure, Observe, Obtain, Offer, Omit, Optimize, Organize, Outline, Overstate

Persist, Point out, Possess, Predict, Present, Probe, Produce, Promote, Propose, Prove, Provide

Qualify, Quantify, Question

Realize, Recommend, Reconstruct, Redefine, Reduce, Refer, Reference, Refine, Reflect, Refute, Regard, Reject, Relate, Rely, Remove, Repair, Report, Represent, Resolve, Retrieve, Reveal, Revise

Separate, Shape, Signify, Simulate, Solve, Specify, Structure, Suggest, Summarize, Support, Suspend, Sustain

Tailor, Terminate, Testify, Theorize, Translate

Undermine, Understand, Unify, Utilize

Validate, Vary, View, Vindicate

Yield  

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Today’s setup. Quick reading session before my Ethics and Justice discussion

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(Messy) desk situation: trying to stay hot and cozy while studying for finals

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does anyone else (in grad school - honours, masters, phd) fear that they are misinterpreting all their sources? I just can’t get over this fear that i’m reading everything wrong and won’t know until the examiner slams my thesis! 

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01.21.16 Microeconomics study session at the library 📚

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July 22, 2017 | 11:44 AM PDT

Looking at the cost of planners made me cry, so I’m back to bullet journaling.  I know it’s a bit early for August, but I’d rather not be stressed later on.  

I also added a bunch of Harry Potter character birthdays to my monthly spread because I’m such a hardcore Potterhead lol.  Although I’m always kicking myself over the fact that, of all the characters in the entire series, I share the same birthday with Dolores Umbridge (why, Jo, whyyy).

The August cover page was inspired by this post from @studywithinspo.  I just love Brian’s ink drawings!

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07.08.17 // a lil flat-lay ft. bio notes, stationery, a corner of my bujo, and the top of my old ds which I found while doing some packing for vacation (I may have spent all day two days ago and a bit of yesterday playing pokemon heh); also hope everyone is having a fantastic summer holiday so far!! c:

🎧: the pokemon game soundtracks 

find this on my new studygram!! (gonna try it out c:) 

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19.05.17  🎵 grand budapest hotel ost 

i declare exam crunch time officially open 🙈 from now until mid-june it’s gonna be a crazy few weeks but i’m actually looking forward to that sense of discipline and structure, it’ll feel good to be productive for a change! right now i just finished a food chem report by drinking rocket fuel coffee and listening to one of my fave movies’ soundtrack.

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planning my life, dusk edition ☆★

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April 10th 2017

Days 4&5 of 30 days of productivity

My notes for neural networks… integrating all of the material from student lectures, paper presentations and my prof’s notes took forever omg 😑

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Wednesday, March 29 My April is all set up. How about yours?

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something no one at the uni really tells you about academia is that some days you really hate your thesis and classes and just the whole thing.

but today, i;m engaged and enjoying it and i’m really grateful and thankful for that.

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[ 17.03.17 ] this past week’s spread was inspired by london and my favourite brit rock bands aka arctic monkeys and franz ferdinand ❤️ ft. an outfit i got from mixmixx for my birthday which finally arrived (after i was ROBBED by customs omfg), the skirt is a bit short on me but makes me feel like a bona fide heather lmao

🎧 candy store - heathers: the musical

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march 19, 2017 | 3:30 pm | 16/100

one of march’s weekly spreads and a summer spread 🌍🌈🌺 i’ve successfully used my bujo since february and i’m verrry proud of myself! also, i got so excited for summer that i started listing ideas, plans, and tv shows to watch! (message me what tv shows or movies i can watch and books to read please i’d appreciate it!!!) i have finals this week so please do wish me luck 🤓📖 one last push until summer break 🙌🏼🌴🌸🌤

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3.15.17 // studying in my favorite bookstore is so relaxing, and they have the best lattes! ☕️ 

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2017年 3月15日 4:12pm

My plants are dying please save them;;; I’ve been having so many all-nighters lately working on my lab reports & essays and let’s just say that my plants are basically reflecting my health right now… an update on my bujo! Can you tell who my bias(es) are through that tiny sticky note~? keke

🎶 Spring Day - BTS 

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Lots of research proposal writing!