Hi.

Welcome to www.engvid.com.

I'm Adam.

In today's video I want to talk to you about academic writing.

So this is especially for those of you who will be taking the IELTS or TOEFL, or any

English exam where you have to write an essay.

Okay?

Now, before I get into this, a lot of you have been told by teachers, by classmates,

by whoever that you should not use phrasal verbs in your academic writing, in your essays,

because you think that they are too informal.

Well, what I want to tell you today is that not only can you use phrasal verbs, you should

use phrasal verbs in your writing.

Phrasal verbs are part of the English language.

We use them in everyday situations, as well in very formal situations; in academics, in

business, etc.

So what I have here, I have a few phrasal verbs to show you that are very common, but

are very useful for academic writing.

And some of them are a little bit more rare, but if you can use them properly in your essays,

your scores should go up; you'll actually impress the graders a little bit.

But, again, if you're using them correctly.

Okay?

So just before we begin, what is a "phrasal verb"?

You have a verb in conjunction with a preposition; and together, the two words have a slightly

different meaning or slightly different meanings - most of them have more than one.

So, today we're going to look at: "account for", "take into account" or "take into consideration",

but the actual phrasal is: "take into".

Okay?

With something else.

"Carry out"; "look into" or "find out" - these are kind of synonyms, you can use them one

or the other.

"Cut down" or "cut back on" - these are also generally synonymous; you can use them in

certain...

In same situations; slightly different usage.

And...

Just so you know, "cut back" can also become a noun: "cutback" or "cutbacks".

"Do without", "follow through", "frown upon" which is a little bit one of the rare ones,

"resort to" which should be used more but people don't use it enough, "rule out", and

"put off".

Okay?