6. Exercise 11.2

Based on the material from this module please check carefully both the in-text references and bibliography used in your semester essay.

You are welcome to use some ready-made phrases from the Academic Online Phrasebank of the University of Manchester (link here Academic Phrasebank | Referring to sources - Academic Phrasebank (manchester.ac.uk))

Some of their examples include:

The literature on X has highlighted several …

Different theories exist in the literature regarding …

More recent attention has focused on the provision of …

There are relatively few historical studies in the area of …

A large and growing body of literature has investigated …

Much of the literature since the mid-1990s emphasises the …

Much of the current literature on X pays particular attention to …

There is a large volume of published studies describing the role of …

The existing literature on X is extensive and focuses particularly on …

There is a relatively small body of literature that is concerned with …

The generalisability of much published research on this issue is problematic.

A considerable amount of literature has been published on X. These studies …

Previous research findings into X have been inconsistent and contradictory (Smith, 1996; …).

The academic literature on X has revealed the emergence of several contrasting themes