In the present section the lexical means to help you speak on the topic of your research are introduced.

Presenting the topic of your research.

n.:	study, investigation, research, paper
v.:	to deal with, to be devoted (to), to study, to investigate, to undertake, to examine
adj.:	detailed, thorough, extensive, comprehensive, preliminary, brief
adv.:	in detail, thoroughly, carefully, accurately

The paper deals with…

The study is devoted to…

The investigation studies…

The research of … is dealt with in the paper.

An extensive study of the problem of… has been undertaken in the paper.

A comprehensive analysis of … has been presented in the research.

The case of … has been thoroughly studied in Chapter 2.

The investigation deals with…

… are dealt with in detail in the present research.

Defining the purpose of the research.

n.:	aim, purpose, task, goal, objective
v.:	to determine, to reveal, to establish, to describe, to provide, to present, to be designed (for) …, to be intended…, to be aimed (at) … .
adj.:	main, chief, primary, principal
conj.:	in order, so that

The aim of the study is to determine the value …

The research is aimed at revealing the ways of …

The main purpose of the paper is to establish the regularities/the difference in …

The investigation is designed to simplify the procedure of …

The chief task of the research is to reveal the causes of…/ the essence of …

The research is intended to eliminate ambiguity … / undesirable effect …

The research is aimed at providing evidence for … / new facts in support of …

The aim of the investigation is to present systematic description of …

Explaining the topicality and novelty of the research.

n.:	topicality, novelty, merit, comparison, innovation
v.:	present, offer, combine, compose, resemble
adj.:	fundamental, chief, main, essential, obvious, certain, ordinary, standard, former, previous, expected, analogous (to), similar (to), identical (with)
adv.:	formerly, previously, usually, commonly (used)

We offer a fundamentally new approach…

The essential merit of our work is …

The approach is not similar to that previously used …

The novelty of the research can be seen …

The research compares favorably with …

Explanation is offered for …

Since previous works suffered from considerable limitations …

We tried to interpret the phenomenon of …

We intended to overcome the difficulty of …

Advantages and limitations of … are discussed for the first time …

In contrast to identical works in the field of … our understanding provides …

As opposed to commonly recognized classification …

Unlike commonly recognized definition of …

Describing methods applied.

n.:	method, technique, approach, procedure
v.:	apply, present, follow, employ, use, allow, permit
adj.:	general, main, additional, modern, appropriate, reliable, effective, improved, promising, adequate, up-to-date, conventional, unconventional

Modern methods of scientific analysis have been applied…

Unconventional approach to … has been presented in the paper.

Appropriate technique has been used …

Reliable methods of analyzing facts of …

The comparative method is useful in …

Methods of empirical and systematic analysis were used …

The approach is especially helpful when …

The approach is more flexible and permits …

The methods of synchronic and diachronic analysis used in the study allow/permit…

The technique is best suited in evaluating …

Comparison is made of the method generally adopted with that used in the investigation.

We have applied an alternative method which …

Describing your findings.

n.:	theory, hypothesis, correlation, discrepancy, assumption, findings, data, evidence, viewpoint, model, function, basis, dependence, influence, effect, interrelations
v.:	assume, present, provide, report, check, produce, verify, extend (to), find, establish, generate, produce, reveal
adj.:	primary, simple, complicated, accurate, satisfactory, certain, preliminary, convincing, contradictory, ambiguous, similar, general, complete, full, variable
adv.:	especially, particularly, specially