Academic Writing for International Students of Business

4 Vocabulary revision  Match the words and phrases found in this unit (on the left) with their meanings on the right. 62 Part 1 ...

1 Paragraph structure  Discuss the following questions with a partner. What is a paragraph? What is the normal length of a par ...

The paragraph can be analysed: 64 Part 1: The Writing Process The rate of home ownership varies widely across the developed worl ...

3 Practice A  Read the next paragraph from the same essay and answer the questions below. 1.9:Organising Paragraphs 65 Despite ...

4 Development of ideas  (a) The sentences below form the third paragraph of the same essay, but they have been mixed up. Use th ...

 (b) Underline the phrase used to link the paragraph to the previous one.  (c) Underline the words and phrases used to link th ...

7 Practice C  Use the information below to write a paragraph about Bill Gates. 1955 Bill Gates was born, the second child in a ...

 (b) Explain the meaning of the following terms to a partner. default sub-prime mortgage housing bubble income tax negative eq ...

1 Introduction contents Introductions are usually no more than about 10% of the total length of the assignment. Therefore, in a ...

 (b) Read the extracts below from introductions to articles and decide which of the components listed opposite they illustrate. ...

(a) Certain words or phrases in the title may need clarifying because they are not widely understood. For the purpose of this pa ...

(f) Clearly, you cannot deal with every aspect of the topic in an essay, so you must make clear the boundaries of your study. Th ...

4 Practice A You have to write an essay titled ‘State control of industry: does it have any benefits?’.  Using the notes below ...

 Match the extracts from conclusions below with the acceptable components opposite (example: a = vi). (i) As always, this inves ...

1 Rewriting Although it is tempting to think that the first draft of an essay is adequate, it is almost certain that it can be i ...

With these points in mind, the introduction could be rewritten as follows: 1.11:Rewriting and Proofreading 77 In the modern comm ...

3 Practice B  Read the draft conclusion to the same essay and decide how it could be improved. Rewrite the conclusion. 78 Part ...

 (b) Examples of the most common types of error in student writing are shown below. In each case, underline the error and corre ...

5 Practice C  Underline the errors in the paragraph below and correct them. 80 Part 1: The Writing Process Bicycle is one of mo ...

1 Group work  Read the text and complete the following exercise. THE IMPORTANCE OF GROUP WORK IN THE BUSINESS SCHOOL Some stude ...