"According to" is a potent sentence opener/ answer introduction. Back in college, this phrase was my weapon. Without fail. Every time I used AT or according to when I answered or felt eloquent or just trying to barbecue the teacher's compusure, they raised their hackles instantaneously. As if my "according to" replies were ghosts in Balete Drive!
the phrase implies that a student really did his wok, i mean work: example, discussion of clines. I would say---"According to Longman dictionary, cline is..." or discussion of biology--"according to (name of the author or a URL) some species of the west are..." I could see the ashen veneer of the professor.
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