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    This document provides suggestions for using impersonal vocabulary in academic essays. It recommends avoiding personal pronouns like "I" unless emphasizing a personal opinion. Some alternatives are phrases using "it", "there", "one", or "we" to introduce opinions more objectively. Examples of impersonal phrases are given for each. The document encourages practicing using these phrases by rewriting opinions in old essays or sample IELTS questions. This will help incorporate more grammatically complex and varied language in writing.

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    This document provides suggestions for using impersonal vocabulary in academic essays. It recommends avoiding personal pronouns like "I" unless emphasizing a personal opinion. Some alternatives are phrases using "it", "there", "one", or "we" to introduce opinions more objectively. Examples of impersonal phrases are given for each. The document encourages practicing using these phrases by rewriting opinions in old essays or sample IELTS questions. This will help incorporate more grammatically complex and varied language in writing.

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    This document provides suggestions for using impersonal vocabulary in academic essays. It recommends avoiding personal pronouns like "I" unless emphasizing a personal opinion. Some alternatives are phrases using "it", "there", "one", or "we" to introduce opinions more objectively. Examples of impersonal phrases are given for each. The document encourages practicing using these phrases by rewriting opinions in old essays or sample IELTS questions. This will help incorporate more grammatically complex and varied language in writing.

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    This document provides suggestions for using impersonal vocabulary in academic essays. It recommends avoiding personal pronouns like "I" unless emphasizing a personal opinion. Some alternatives are phrases using "it", "there", "one", or "we" to introduce opinions more objectively. Examples of impersonal phrases are given for each. The document encourages practicing using these phrases by rewriting opinions in old essays or sample IELTS questions. This will help incorporate more grammatically complex and varied language in writing.

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    The passage discusses using impersonal vocabulary and phrases to avoid using personal pronouns like 'I' in academic essays.

    The passage discusses using impersonal phrases like 'IT' and 'THERE' to start sentences and give opinions in an impersonal way.

    The passage suggests looking at old essays and rewriting opinions using the impersonal phrases, and practicing writing opinions for sample questions using the phrases.

    Impersonal vocabulary for academic essays

    This lesson shows you some useful impersonal vocabulary this can be useful in discussion
    type essays when you are talking about other peoples opinions.

    The general idea avoid the personal pronoun


    The idea is that you dont use I unless you are emphasising the fact that this is your personal
    opinion.
    These impersonal phrases can often be replaced by short one or two word alternatives: such as
    possibly. I suggest that you try and use some of these impersonal phrases and some of the
    plainer alternatives that way you should get some good variety in your writing.

    The impersonal IT
    One strategy you can think about is using IT phrases to start your sentences when you are about
    to give an opinion. This has two effects:

    it makes what you say sound more intelligent/plausible

    it gives you some ready-made English to use that is grammatically complex

    you dont always need to say Some people say

    Here are a few alternatives for you:

    The impersonal THERE


    Another alternative is to use a THERE phrase to be more impersonal. This works for the same
    reasons as IT does and nearly all these phrases are also for giving opinions:

    ONE and WE
    This one is slightly trickier. Personally, I rarely use either of these structures but some people do.
    So here are a few:

    How to practise
    Learning phrases is a very efficient way to learn a language. Indeed, we tend not to use words by
    themselves but groups of words when we speak or write. What you need to do is to experiment
    and try using these phrases for yourself in your writing. This is what I would suggest:
    1. look at some of your old discussion essays and find the opinions in them rewrite those
    opinions with some of these phrases
    2. look at some sample IELTS essay questions and practise writing YOUR opinions about
    them using some of these phrases in one or two sentences

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