Academic Writing for International Students of Business

 Study the table below, which shows where each vocabulary issue is dealt with more fully. 162 Part 3: Vocabulary for Writing 0. ...

2 Language features The following words (all nouns) are used to describe common features of language.  Discuss the words in the ...

3 Practice  Study the following sentences and decide which of the features listed on p. 163 each illustrates. (a) He said that ...

 Study the differences between other similar confusing pairs (most common use in brackets). accept (verb/except (prep) It is di ...

5 Words and phrases from other languages When reading academic texts, you may meet words and phrases from other languages, usual ...

1 Types of abbreviations Abbreviations take the form of shortened words, acronyms or other abbreviations, as shown below. (a) Sh ...

2 Business abbreviations As with all academic subjects, Business and Economics employ abbreviations to save time and space. Comm ...

3 Punctuation There are many standard abbreviations that have a full stop after them to show that it is a shortened form (lt. = ...

6 Practice  Explain the abbreviations in the following sentences. (a) The failure rate among ICT projects in SOEs reaches 70% ( ...

1 Nouns  Study the following list of common academic nouns, with examples of use. With a partner, find an approximate synonym f ...

category Her work established two categories of corporate governance. claim Their claimthat the company was founded in the 1700s ...

 Complete each sentence with a suitable noun. (a) The enquiry found no ___ of corruption in the tendering process. (b) The tuto ...

Compare the three nouns: Economics is a demanding undergraduate degree course.(academic subject) The Greek economyis heavily i ...

rational irrational reliable unreliable relevant irrelevant specific non-specific subjective objective theoretical practical ore ...

(e) All advertising must respect cultural differences. (___) (f) Some progress was made in the theoretical area. (___) (g) A fre ...

1 Understanding main verbs  Study the following sentence and underline the two main verbs. The government has consistently enco ...

 Study the list below and find a synonym in each case. NB: Some of these verbs (e.g. ‘hold’) are used in academic writing with ...

2 Using verbs of reference Referring verbs are used to summarise another writer’s ideas: Previn arguedthat interest rates were t ...

(b) A second group describe a reaction to a previously stated position: accept admit agree with deny doubt. Handlesmith doubts ...

4 Further referring verbs A small group of verbs is followed by the pattern (somebody/thing + for + noun/gerund): blame censure ...