1. The research aim.
2. A hedge (a statement that has been softened to avoid criticism).
3. A location statement (a reference to a table or figure).
4. Three different discourse markers (sometimes called connectors or connectives).
5. An attempt to create a reader-friendly flow of ideas between sentences (which does not involve discourse markers).
6. Old-fashioned language that you wouldn’t use in your own academic writing.
7. An example of consistency in the writing.
8. Write out the research aim as a question.
9. Summarise the most important results in a few sentences.
10. Explain the implication(s) of these results in a few sentences.
