Academic Writer

academic writer: style: generalizing

Generalizing
If you wish to make a general point or summarize evidence or arguments that you have presented , you can use words from the following list.
Making a general point: Broadly speaking we feel this will have a positive impact.
Summarizing an argument: On the whole Hong Kong was commercially beneficial to the United Kingdom.

Basically Generally (speaking)
Altogether On balance
Broadly (speaking) On the whole
Essentially Overall
Fundamentally

EXAMPLES

  1. He is essentially a live performer.
  2. Thirdly, because they regard the elections as basically a viable process.
  3. `He came to our school basically because he was living with his grandmother and aunt who live at Lam Tin Estate,'
  4. Beach water quality has basically continued to hold steady as the rains earlier this summer have given way to warm......
  5. Monday's crash in share prices, and the questions it raised, was `probably on balance inevitable".
  6. But on the whole the picture is depressing.
  7. When the dust had cleared, it was evident that the city had taken the earthquake, on the whole , pretty well.
  8. Overall , these statistics can be somewhat misleading. These studies do not break down the markets sector by sector.
  9. Generally speaking, this new technology provides considerably quicker access to the web.
  10. Broadly speaking this would have a major impact on the overall security of private networks.
  11. Our advice is to improve your manufacturing processes; and strengthen your overall competitiveness.
  12. We know that truth is generally a lot duller than fiction.

 

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