Academic writing 1: giving opinions

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Kelly has written a fascinating study of how early people originally got to Australia. He presents some very (1) powerful / mighty arguments to support his theory. He offers plenty of (2) persuading / supporting evidence to back up his ideas. He has a rather strong (3) trend / tendency to (4) test / challenge others’ theories too aggressively, but in general this is a (5) groundbreaking / irrefutable research paper which will (6) form / shape thinking for some time to come.