Academic Writing for International Students of Business

Project: A piece of research, either individual or group work, with the topic chosen by the student(s). Essay: The most common t ...

1.2 Critical Reading 1 Academic texts Text 1: Yes, it summarises some relevant research and includes citations. Text 2: No, it i ...

6 Reading methods Choosing suitable texts Read title and sub-title carefully Survey text features (e.g. abstract, contents, inde ...

9 Critical thinking The responses to these questions will vary from student to student, which is the nature of the critical appr ...

4 Avoiding plagiarism by developing good study habits Possible further suggestions: Check that your quotations are exactly the ...

4 Brainstorming Possible answer: International Tourism – Segmentation of market How and why Package holidays made foreign holid ...

1.5 Finding Key Points and Note-making 1 Finding key points Possible titles include: Marketing to the older generation Selling t ...

(3) Goldman, Lakdawalla and Zheng (2009) claim that raising food prices can reduce consumption in long term (4) No clear link he ...

(h) Balancing a loss in one area with profits from others (i) Demonstrate bad behaviour (j) Number of copies sold per issue 1.6 ...

(d)Model summary: Research suggests that the long-term decline in human fertility may be reversing in some of the most advanced ...

10 Vocabulary revision (a) Assess: assessment Economise: economy Subsidise: subsidy Impede: impediment Translate: translation (b ...

(c) Hoffman (2009) argues that the impact of mobile telephony on developing countries is significant as they offer services prev ...

2 Taking a critical approach (a) Possible answer: Summary Original globalisation, although not a modern globalisation is not a n ...

3 Practice A (a) Topic sentence Example Reason Supporting point 1 Supporting point 2 Supporting point 3 (b) for example/It is wi ...

with a school friend. In 1980, his company, called Microsoft, was asked to write an operating system by IBM for its new PC. Five ...

2 Introduction structure Essential: Background/A review of some literature/Your purpose/Your method/Outline Optional: Definition ...

6 Practice B Model conclusion: Both social and economic benefits have been claimed for home ownership. But there is little stron ...

(iv) All verbs need to use past tense: that produced (vi) ‘Successfulness’ is not a word: success (vi) ‘pervious’ is incorrect: ...

5 Divide up the work fairly, according to the abilities of the members 6 Select a coordinator/editor 7 Finish the assignment on ...

Answers: Part 2 2.1 Argument and Discussion 1 Discussion vocabulary (a) benefits/advantages (b) drawbacks/disadvantages (c) nega ...