Inside Track Successful Academic Writing by Andy Gillett/Angela Hammond/Mary Martala

Author:Andy Gillett/Angela Hammond/Mary Martala [Andy Gillett, Angela Hammond and Mary Martala]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pearson Education Limited
Published: 2013-08-22T00:00:00+00:00

Supporting with examples

Claims can be supported by examples. Look at the way examples are used in the following texts.

Rivers vary greatly in appearance with changes both from source to mouth and between individual rivers. It is this morphological diversity that is the fascination for many people. In the case of Europe, contrast the quietly flowing small chalk-fed streams shaded by overhanging willows of southern England with the turbulent milky-coloured torrents draining glacial regions of the Alps.

The size, shape and location of a river can also be transformed overnight by a single large flood, by depositing sediment in some areas and reactivating other reaches by erosion. Few people in the United Kingdom will, for example, have escaped seeing the horrifying images of the destructive forces of the flood that hit the small Cornish village of Boscastle, England in the summer of 2004.

(Holden, 2008: 381)

It was once thought that distraction was enough to help people take their mind off pain. Some studies, however, have shown that it is not necessarily distraction that is responsible for reducing pain but rather the emotional quality of the distractor. Positive stimuli, such as humour and laughter, are known to reduce pain perception (Cogan et al., 1987; Rotton and Shats, 1996) but increasing the attention required to complete cognitive tasks (distraction without emotion) does not (McCaul and Malott, 1984).

(Martin et al., 2007: 376)

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