Academic Writing for International Students of Business

5 Counterarguments Model answers: It has been claimed that employees may waste time at home, but in practice there seems little ...

3 Practice B Model answers: (a) An increase in the tax on tobacco led to a fall in cigarette consumption. (b) Rising demand for ...

2.3 Cohesion 2 Practice A Reference Reference word/phrase La Ferrera She new businesses they average life of only 4.7 years this ...

2.4 Comparisons 2 Practice A (a) Residential property in London is twice as expensive as in Rome. (b) Property in Moscow is slig ...

2.5 Definite Articles 4 Practice A (a) Electrical engineering is the main industry in thenorthern region. (b) Energy firms have ...

(d) agreement (e) costs (f) financial instrument Model answers: (g) A trades union is an organisation of workers formed to prote ...

2.7 Examples 1 Using examples (a) Illustration (b) Support (c) Support 2 Phrases to introduce examples Model answers: (a) Some t ...

4 Practice B Possible answers include: Customs: holidays and festivals, ways of greeting people Everyday patterns: types of shop ...

5 Building on generalisations Example answer: (a) In many countries, people tend to favour domestic products. Reasons for this p ...

6 Practice C Model paragraph: In 1889 he was introduced to Florence Rowe, the daughter of a bookseller, while on holiday. After ...

2.11 Punctuation 9 Practice A (a) The study was carried out by Christine Zhen-Wei Qiang of the World Bank. (b) Professor Rowan’s ...

(g) civil war (h) irons were (i) work 5 Practice B companies have/websites/e-commerce/this is/businesses/their/trouble/security/ ...

universities, have continued to rise steeply, growing 200% overall between 1997 and 2011. It seems in this case that higher fees ...

2 The language of change Others possible: (a) rose/increased (b) levelled off (c) steadily (d) rose/increased (e) slightly (f) c ...

Revision Exercise: Elements of Writing 1 drawback/negative factor or aspect/con or minus (informal) 2 It is widely considered th ...

Answers: Part 3 3.1 Approaches to Vocabulary 2 Discussing language Examples are provided in section 3. 3 Practice (b) statement ...

3.2 Abbreviations 6 Practice (a) information and communications technology/State-owned enterprises/and others (b) unique selling ...

perspective – angle of study phenomenon – unusual event policy – formal guidelines preference – favourite choice process – serie ...

(d) relevant (e) necessary (f) average (g) danger (h) necessity (i) unreliable (j) approximate (k) economic (l) synthesis 5 Prac ...

clarify = explain concentrate on = look at closely be concerned with = deal with demonstrate = show determine = find discriminat ...